Natalie Baszile's novel
Queen Sugar was adapted for seven television seasons by writer/director Ava DuVernay, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey.
Her new novel is
Friends and Family.
At
Book Riot Baszile tagged
three books that celebrate complicated women. One entry on the list:
Normal People Don’t Live Like This, Rainey Royal, and List of All Possible Desires by Dylan Landis
This trilogy of novels-in-stories is a masterclass in writing complicated women. Landis explores the lives of girls and young women in 1970’s lower west side, New 
York. This was the era before helicopter parents and mommy play groups, when adults checked out to pursue their own desires, leaving their girls to raise themselves. Landis’s characters are wild and defiant. They are lovers and thieves, artists and thrill seekers. But beneath their tough exteriors, each is desperate for love and connection and will do almost anything to get it. Their search often finds them along the razor’s edge—physically, sexually, emotionally. Over the course of three books, readers will find themselves holding their breath as they watch Landis’s characters grow from fragile, rebellious girls into clear-eyed, truth seeking women.
Read about
another title on the list.
The Page 69 Test: Rainey Royal.
--Marshal Zeringue
Natalie Baszile's novel Queen Sugar was adapted for seven television seasons by writer/director Ava DuVernay, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey.
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