She is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in Residence Program, and she is the curator of the popular monthly Brooklyn reading series, Sundays. Davis newest book, 'Into the Go-Slow,' opens in Detroit. Davis is the books editor at Bold As Love Magazine, a black-culture website, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The, among other publications. Davis is a Detroit native whose hometown takes center stage in her novels, although shes since made her home in Brooklyn, N.Y. DAVIS’s debut novel, Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad 2004), was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Time Out New York named Davis one of 10 New York Authors to Read Right Now. Against a backdrop of Nigeria’s infamous go-slow-traffic as wild and surprising as a Fela lyric-Angie begins to unravel the mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to love and life after Ella.īRIDGETT M. Davis’ second novel, Into The Go-Slow, was selected as a best book of 2014 by Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, BookRiot, Bustle and The Root, among others. Her older sister, Ella, had disappeared in Lagos a decade earlier, and Angie decides to retrace her steps. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order.

Davis Into the Go Slow) and from Kingston circa 1976 to New York. It’s 1986, and twenty-one-year-old Angie is adrift in her hometown of Detroit. Read reviews and buy The World According to Fannie Davis - by Bridgett M Davis (Paperback) at Target. As far as mental travel goes, the fiction will move you from Detroit to Lagos (Bridgett M. INTO THE GO-SLOW is a novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans.

Into the Go-Slow by Bridgett M. Davis