Eric Jerome Dickey Made Black Women Feel Seen
The best-selling author, who died recently at the age of 59, created a world of fiction that understood and celebrated his most loyal readers.
Since learning of the death of the best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey, I’ve thought a great deal about the nature of Black storytelling. Black American novelists, in particular, tread a dichotomous path: Part of the landscape festers with the trauma wounds passed down from enslaved ancestors, wounds opened daily, , , , s, , , or . The other part of the landscape blooms with a soulful, buoyant, resilient, glorious nature—that inestimable thing called Black joy.
