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Design Category
Book design, 2006
Design firm
6x9design (Brooklyn, New York)
Collection
(2007) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2006
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Common for the period, this novel was originally serialized as newspaper entries. My hope was to convey the production history of the “first serialized novel by an African American woman,” while also referencing the narrative itself.
“The tried and true device of reproducing a printed piece goes above the stereotype here.”