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books with a interracial relationship??
Ryssa Ryssa Oct 08, 2013 05:59PM
surprisingly I cant find one help?



Marilyn (last edited Oct 16, 2013 09:17AM ) Oct 15, 2013 08:16AM   1 vote
"Five Smooth Stones" by Ann Fairbairn. Great read. Also, a more recent and really great book, "The Supremes at Earl's All You Can Eat".

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Rosemary Marilyn, thank you for reminding me of this book, which is one I've held onto for about 40 years! Have moved it into my to be read section of the book ...more
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Ann Peck I read Five Smooth Stones decades ago yet am still haunted by it. I think I just might read it again.
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Noughts and Crosses -Malorie Blackman


I can't think of any, but you can join this group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/185

Then, you can post this under the "requests: for books in general" folder, and somebody will probably be able to help you find one :)


Geoffrey (last edited Nov 24, 2013 09:10AM ) Oct 09, 2013 07:52AM   0 votes
James Baldwin had one. Don`t recall its name.

There`s a French Algerian novel about a relationship between an Algerian Jewess and an Arab. Small or Smail was the autor. The Arab is a Young man, highly intelligent, subjected to both outright prejudice and condescending patronage who ends up going into the porno business.

DREAMS OF MY FATHER by the Prez. His relationship with his grandparents and mother are clearly defined.


Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs

Those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head. I'll come back if I think of more :)


Gina (last edited Oct 18, 2013 02:18PM ) Oct 09, 2013 02:40PM   0 votes
The Story of Beautiful Girl - Rachel Simon

Milk in my Coffee - Eric Jerome Dickey. I think he may have others like that, too.

updated: Found another: The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove


Kindred by Octavia Butler.


The Falconhurst books by Kyle Onstott have "relationships" between whites and black slaves prior to the Civil War (in the US).


Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde. The movie wimped out and didn't have Trevor's Mom and his teacher be of different races, but in the book they are.


Friday Night Knitting Club was excellent!


Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler


Most of the books by Dorothy Koomson


Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Very moving story of the blossoming romance between a retired major and an Asian shopkeeper.


The Color of Water by James McBride. It's memoir, and it's amazing.

Seasons of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, maybe? One of the characters has quite a few interracial relationships, but the book isn't really about those relationships as such.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith.


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