13 Books That Every African-American Should Have In His/Her Home
Thomas and Beulah
by Rita Dove
Written by the second African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Thomas and Beulah is a critical collection exploring love, death, pain, marriage, courtship and motherhood. The book is separated into two halves with the first half expressed from the viewpoint of Dove’s grandfather (Thomas in the book), and the second from that of her grandmother (Beulah in the book).