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 celebrating complicated women. One entry on the list:
Take What You Can by Naima Coster
Set in France and New York, this novel explores the lives of best friends Milly and Val, two young Black women whose bond is forged during their year 
abroad and stretches into their thirties. What they share is the pain of having lost their mothers and a shared history with a woman from their past. Now, young mothers themselves, both living in Brooklyn, Milly and Val soon discover that love for each other might not be enough to bridge the divide that’s growing between them. Differences in their economic and familial circumstances, marital tensions, plus divergent responses to the demands of raising a child soon breed resentment and jealousy, misunderstandings. Take What You Can is a meditation on motherhood, class, and the deep satisfaction that comes from being complicated women.
Read about
the other books on the list.
--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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