Her

About this book

This rowdy, irreverent novel explores relationships among a community of Black women--mothers and daughters, friends and lovers--who came to Detroit in the late 1950s to work the lines at the Ford Motor plant.

"HER is a novel whose words refuse to be constrained by the boundaries of its pages. Like jazz that reaches out to both heart and gut...From a central core of strong women characters, Cherry Muhanji experiments and elaborates, playing variations, solos, and combinations up and down the register. Her creation is both eye-opening and sensual"--500 Great Books by Women.

Subjects

• african americans
• african americans, fiction
• african american women
• ferro-grumley award for literary excellence (women) winner
• fiction
• fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
• interpersonal relations
• lambda literary awards
• lambda literary award winner
• lesbians
• lgbtq novels
• literature, women authors
• nineteen sixties
• sexuality
• women, literary collections