Since she left, there have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders if they are related somehow. Back in Sacajawea, Angela realizes she hasn't been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Now, two years later, Angela is moving past her grief and taking control of her life as a talent agent in Los Angeles, and she is finally ready to revisit the rural house she loved so much as a child. Instead, an unexpected tragedy ripped Angela's family apart. But is it?Īngela hoped her grandmother's famous "healing magic" could save her failing marriage while she and her family lived in the old house the summer of 2001. The house Angela Toussaint's late grandmother owned is so beloved that townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington, call it the Good House.
Now she returns with her best yet – a chilling story set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Tananarive Due's first three novels gained her legions of dedicated fans who recognize a true master of the genre. The first course went viral and included a visit from Peele.ĭue was featured in the 2019 documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Shudder.From the American Book Award winner and author of "one of the most talked about debuts in the horror field since the advent of Stephen King" (Publishers Weekly) comes a terrifying story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces. She developed a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival And The Black Horror Aesthetic," after the release of the 2017 film Get Out. Due is also the author of the African Immortals novel series and the Tennyson Hardwick novels.ĭue is a member of the affiliate faculty in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles and is also an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta. She also was one of the contributors to the humor novel Naked Came the Manatee, in which various Miami-area authors each contributed chapters to a mystery/thriller parody. Walker (based in part on research conducted by Alex Haley before his death) and Freedom in the Family, a non-fiction work about the civil rights struggle. Due has also written The Black Rose, historical fiction about Madam C. This, like many of her subsequent books, was part of the supernatural genre. She is best known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror.ĭue teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.ĭue was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995. Tananarive Priscilla Due is an American author and educator.
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