Toni Ann Johnson

Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson follows a middle-aged African American woman facing loss as she returns to her conservative, White hometown. The novella tackles issues of race, isolation, childhood trauma, abandonment, and ultimately healing....

Serena is a Bermudan jazz singer whose demons lead her to abandon her daughter Artie....

In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the...