April Sinclair's Books
Jan.30.2007
Jean “Stevie” Stevenson, the indomitable heroine of Coffee Will Make You Black, is back—somewhat older and wiser, with some experience and a college degree—diving headfirst into the hot tub, free love, yoga, and vegetarian lifestyle of 1970s San Francisco. In this liberating new world of raised consciousness, mind-expanding, and disco-dancing, a soul sister with passion and daring...
Apr.25.2000
“I am not young, or thin, or white, or beautiful,” says the narrator of Sinclair’s worldly-wise and entertaining new novel. Gun-shy after several catastrophic relationships, Chicago deejay Daphne (Dee Dee) Dupree is an outwardly successful African-American woman aching for self-realization. Sassy from the safety of her broadcasting booth, the heavy-set forty-one-year-old jauntily...
Feb.01.1995
From newcomer Sinclair, the coming-of-age story of a black girl in 1960s Chicago. Jean “Stevie” Stevenson is a child of the working poor. Her father is a hospital janitor, her mother is a bank teller, and Grandma owns a popular South Side chicken-stand. Sixth-grader Stevie, meanwhile, is tired of her mother’s rules, her refusal to countenance “black English,” her attempts to make...
About April
April Sinclair is the author of three novels, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Coffee Will Make You Black, Ain’t Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice, and I Left My Back Door Open. The American Library Association named Coffee Will Make You Black 1994 Book of...
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Causes April Sinclair Supports
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Wardrobe for Opportunity