Amiable with Big Teeth
A Novel of the Love Affair between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem

I didn't really enjoy reading this book. But I loved it anyway. It felt more like a primary resource discovered in a dusty part of the smithsonian archive than it felt like a living novel. I can see why it stayed unpublished for many years. It's intellectually and ideologically complex, and it doesn......more

After all the hoopla about Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, an uncorrected first draft which was rejected and never worked on again, it is amazing that the rediscovery of this completed and edited novel by a leading Black writer, which had been accepted for publication by Dutton in 1941 and then myst......more

This one was a swing and a miss for me. I really like McKay's poetry but had never read his prose, and this seemed fun, the story of an Ethiopian ambassador trying to raise funds in Harlem to repel the fascist invasion of his country and in the process leading to lots of chaos, possible scams, etc.......more