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Three Black families in Philadelphia and New York navigate ambition, love, and racial identity in the early 20th century. Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis, was the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance.

An African father who sold his children into slavery 250 years ago watches their descendants scatter across the Black Atlantic — a missionary in Africa, a slave in America, a GI's wartime companion in England.

Two Americans try to give away $32,000 cash to strangers around the world in a week following a friend's death. Though by an American author, this novel portrays African countries with unusual honesty about Western projection.