Have you ever had the strange feeling that you had already read the cartoon strips that were published in today’s newspaper? Or, wondered whether the horoscopes were really written by an astrologer after monitoring the positions of stars every morning?

Ask Jack Stefancic, reporter for The Crazewood Journal, a fictional small-town newspaper in the novel Page-A1.

“No comments,” he would reply.

The Crazewood Journal’s political bias emerges when it begins to cover the campaigns of Juan McPain and Borak O’Drama for Crazewood mayor.

To stay afloat in business, the newspaper’s publisher, who is also the editor-in-chief, resorts to union busting, phony diversity campaign, offers kickbacks to corporate advertisers and siphons resources from print to online edition.

Page-A1 is written in newspaper style including a section in a Q & A format and a typo in a headline. This 76,000-word novel will make you laugh, ponder and will prompt you to buy a copy of your local newspaper, just to support the publication.

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.

“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear.” —Glamour

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This novel “transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious” (People).

"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women.” —The New York Times Book Review