marginalized voices

Nettie Jones, a fiercely original voice in Black literature, is receiving long-overdue recognition with the reissue of her once-controversial 1984 novel Fish Tales. The shockingly erotic, semi-autobiographical story—originally published by Toni Morrison during her time as an editor at Random House—centers on a restless woman navigating sex, drugs, and emotional volatility in 1970s Detroit and […]