Reading Sadeqa Johnson’s redemptive gut punch of a novel, “The House of Eve,” made me recall the dissonance I felt in 2021 when National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi declared that the ...

Now, in The House of Eve, Johnson transports readers to 1950s D.C. and Philadelphia in this epic love story that explores themes of race, class, colorism and women’s ambition. Tell us about this ...

Sadeqa Johnson shines a light on Black motherhood in 'The House of Eve' : NPR's Book of the Day In the 1950s, pregnancy and adoption were topics often clouded in shame, secrecy – or both. That's ...