Non Fiction Works 

What happens when a woman decides to shun societal norms and lives a life on her terms?

American author and teacher Bebe Moore Campbell’s novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine (1992) spans three decades in the life of an African American family haunted by the lynching of young Armstrong Todd in the rural Mississippi town of Hopewell. The repercussions of this singular, devastating act ripple throughout subsequent generations, the trauma manifesting itself in the lives of Armstrong's descendants and in the citizens of Hopewell, illustrating the corrosive, long-term effects of racial prejudice. The NAACP awarded Your Blues Ain't Like Mine the Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction