Shonda is also the newest fiction faculty member in Alma College’s MFA Program. Pushcart Prize nominee, a USC Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow and a Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles (COLA) Master Artist Fellow, Shonda Buchanan is the author of five books, including the award-winning memoir, Black Indian. A novel, Remedy For a Broken Angel was published in 2014 and was nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. It was t he Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 LARAMIE Awards. A novella, Homegoing won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest and was published by the press in 2021. Toni Ann Johnson won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction with her linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (October 15, UGA Press) , selected for the prize and edited by Roxane Gay. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from. It seems they've made it in the white world. We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born.
They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. Light Sk i n Gone to Waste: Stories (University of Georgia Press)
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