Bernice L. McFadden

From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters.

This heartbreaking tale follows two damaged but hopeful souls as they struggle to find love despite the ravages of their pasts....

i>Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi - a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation....

From the award-winning author of Sugar comes a novel that tells the story of a woman who uncovers the fragility of life and the enduring strength of family love.

Sugar arrives in the small town of Bigelow, Arkansas, like an ominous storm. She saunters down the street in a blonde wig and spiked heels, cigarette dangling between red-painted lips....

Abeo lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine....

Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden's mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan blends the stories of McFadden's familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters....

Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon....

The second of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name for the first time.

The Warmest December is the incredibly moving story of one Brooklyn family and the alcoholism that determined years of their lives. Narrated by Kenzie Lowe as she visits her dying father and finds that choices she once thought beyond her control are very much hers to make....

Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era....

New York City, April 2002: Geneva, Crystal, Noah, and Chevy, a close friend group, are all mid-thirty, flirty—and ready to embrace the heat of the summer. But behind closed doors, each of them has struggles of their own.

Sugar Lacey comes back home to a past she hoped to forget....

Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is and where she comes from....

When we meet Joseph Patrick, he’s in the midst of a classic midlife crisis. After dropping an obscene amount of money on a luxury watch — and leaving his wallet at the store — Joseph hops into a rented Porsche and takes off across the desert....

Three daughters, connected only through their relationship to Amos, a now elderly ex-musician struggling with Alzheimer's disease, find their lives intertwining....

Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the small Southern town of Bigelow with the hope of starting over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears she can't hide from her past....

On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died. She was in a car crash on the motorway turnoff to Detroit. For a few minutes, she was clinically dead. From the moment of her resuscitation, we follow a remarkable life, all the way up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar.