Gayl Jones
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"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
2) Corregidora
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The true harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early twentieth century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.