Adrienne Brown

Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race. In The Residential is Racial Adrienne Brown reveals how mass homeownership remade the rubrics of race, from the early cases realtors made for homeownership's necessity to white survival through...

Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function. Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks-in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life-casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she...

Fables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown's most beloved story, "The River," as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. With narrative "fables" of speculative fiction and "spells" that play with the lines between poetry, instruction,...

Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working...

"Ella, or Cinderella, as her parents fondly call her, is getting ready for a puppet-show contest when she meets an unexpected friend, Val. Val doesn't have much, but she teaches Ella how to sew. In return, Ella shares her sewing materials with Val. On the big day, the girls both put on great shows. But who will win the grand prize? "--

Fairies Iridessa and Tinker Bell find themselves trapped inside a pirate's bottle, floating on the sea after their plans to use the bottle to scare away an owl go awry.

Rosetta, a dainty garden-talent fairy, and her friend Fawn, a rough-and-tumble animal-talent fairy, face their fears when Fawn agrees to dress up for a fancy dinner with the queen and Rosetta spends the next day doing Fawn's favorite things.

Garden-talent fairy Lily invents a new kind of flower that she names the panglory, and while the blooms start out as she expects, they soon lose their color, along with all of the other plants in Pixie Hollow.

"Prilla is searching for the perfect pumpkin. Whill she find it in time for the Fall Ball?"--P. [4] of cover.