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âA funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicagoâ by an author who âwrites like Terry McMillanâs kid sisterâ (Entertainment Weekly). In this hilarious and insightful coming-of-age novel, author April Sinclair introduces the charming Jean âStevieâ Stevenson, a young woman raised on Chicagoâs South Side during an era of irrevocable social upheaval.  Curious and witty, bold but naïve, Stevie grows up debating the qualities of good hair and dark skin. As the years pass, her family and neighborhood are changed by the times, from the War on Poverty to race riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from âBlack Is Beautifulâ to Black Power. Against this remarkable backdrop, Stevie makes the sometimes harrowing, often comic, always enthralling transformation into a young adultâsocially aware, discovering her sexuality, and proud of her identity.  âWhether sheâs dealing with a subject as monumental as the civil rights movement or as intimate as Stevieâs first sexual encounters,â writes the Los Angeles Times, âSinclair never fails to make you laugh and never sacrifices the narrative to make a point.â  Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and named a best book of the year in young adult fiction by the American Library Association, Coffee Will Make You Black is an exquisite portrait of adolescence that will resonate with readers of all ages.  |
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