Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Guinea Pigs USA Today bestselling author of

USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Test

and Gladys Bentley

Set between seventeenth-century Cape Verde and contemporary London

marooned peoples

A novel that speaks to unfulfilled desires and the euphoric nostalgia that's particular to the beginning of middle age

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Guinea Pigs USA Today bestselling author ofA "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, "the most important interpreter of Black life in our time" (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.) Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water