


To hear the full and extended interview with Shonda Buchanan, click the link above or subscribe to our podcast.īlack Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony-only, this isn’t fiction. We have a right to be here and we have a right to fight. Her work is prescient and her voice is disarming: “This is our country and we have a right to stay. In this conversation, she shares what it means to be Black Indian both within intimate family relations as well as in the broader cultural and historical contexts. Her writing pulls at the thread of truth with deep compassion, grace, and humor.

Shonda Buchanan can tell a story like no other.
