Cherry Muhanji

This is the story of the Black women and men who came North to work the lines of the Ford Motor plant. It's a story about John R. Street, the Harlem of Detroit, where they spent their nights trying to forget their days - at the Frolic and Flame Showbars, playing Mr. Ben's numbers, sitting on stoops reminiscing about the days of their youth in the South. With daring humor and musicality, Her weaves through the complicated and transformative relationships among different generations of Black women, who, above all, teach each other how to survive - not on men or money, but on the courage to move a long ways in tight spaces.

A Novel

Egyirba High

Kesho Scott

This expanded edition of Tight Spaces includes six new essays that explore the fulfilling spaces inhabited by Kesho Scott, Cherry Muhanji, and Egyirba High since their book was originally published in 1987. Tight Spaces won the American Book Award in 1988.

Cherry Muhanji

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