The story of Charlie Chaplin's years of self-imposed exile from the United States, when he had become a pariah during the 1950s Red Scare. While living abroad he made his last, and by general agreement, worst films, only to return home years later to a triumphant reception.

Journalist and author Mark Whitaker describes the momentous year when the Civil Rights movement split as a new sense of Black identity embodied by Stokely Carmichael and the slogan "Black Power" redefined the Civil Rights movement and challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

A gripping, reflective, and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love that follows a Queer Black woman-a recovering opioid addict recently out of prison-who is desperate to stay clean and pull her tattered life together with the aim of regaining custody of her two children while her old life beckons.