Shaking the tree: a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women

"Home" from The prisoner's wife / asha bandele

From

Black ice / Lorene Cary

From

Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers

From Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

"Children of the sea" from Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat

"Beginning again" from An American story / Debra J. Dickerson

"Wonderful teen" from Don't erase me / Carolyn Ferrell

"Markers" from Break any woman down / Dana Johnson

"It's racier in the Bahamas" from Bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair / Lisa Jones

From The

serpent's gift / Helen Elaine Lee

"July 1978" from The book of Sarahs: a family in parts / Catherine E. McKinley

"What's love got to do with it?" from Every good-bye ain't gone / Itabari Njeri

"The

stranger" / ZZ Packer

"April 1974 - Johnson Creek" from Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry

From The

pagoda / Patricia Powell

"Leila, 1998" from Song of the water saints / Nelly Rosario

"Body of Luce Rivera" from Caucasia / Danzy Senna

"Wall of pain" from The fall of Rome / Martha Southgate

From

Girl in the mirror: three generations of black women in motion / Natasha Tarpley

"Nepenthe" from Glow in the dark / Lisa Teasley

"Larchmont" from Black, white, and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self / Rebecca Walker

"On our way to beautiful" from On our way to beautiful / Yolanda Young

"Lover" from Black girl in Paris / Shay Youngblood.