A wrongful conviction powers this Women’s prize-shortlisted novel of the black American middle-class experience
frican Americans are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of white Americans, and the negative impact of a criminal record is much greater for African American job applicants. How do black Americans navigate such a grossly unfair system, and maintain their dignity?, shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction.
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