Michelle Cliff

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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1987
  • Latest Book:
    May 2010
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Book List in Order: 8 titles

  • No Telephone to Heaven

    A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of setti...

  • Bodies of Water

    Caribbean writer Michelle Cliff, author of the highly acclaimed novel Free Enterprise, presents a brilliant collection of 10 short stories dealing with oppression and liberation. "Wonderfully rich and disturbing tales . . . a remarkable collection, a...

  • Abeng

    Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt...

  • Free Enterprise

    In 1858, two black women meet and later join John Brown's doomed raid on Harper's Ferry, barely escaping with their lives. Acclaimed author Michelle Cliff places an actual historical figure at the center of her powerful new novel, which brings to lif...

  • The Store of a Million Items

  • If I Could Write This In Fire

    In her first book-length collection of nonfiction, Cliff interweaves reflections on her life in Jamaica, England, and the United States with a powerful and sustained critique of racism, homophobia, and social injustice. If I Could Write This in Fire ...

  • Everything Is Now

    Everything Is Now brings together all the short fiction of Michelle Cliff, featuring fourteen new pieces as well as the stories from her two previous short fiction collections (Bodies of Water and The Store of a Million Items).Cliff, born in Jamaica ...

  • Into the Interior

    In her previous novels, Michelle Cliff explored potent themes of colonialism, race, myth, and identity with rare intelligence, lyrical intensity, and a profound sense of both history and place. Now, with Into the Interior, she has written her most in...



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Michelle Cliff has published 8 books.

Michelle Cliff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Into the Interior, was published in May 2010.

The first book by Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven, was published in July 1987.

No. Michelle Cliff does not write books in series.
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