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Homegoing
Toni Ann Johnson
Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson follows a middle-aged African-American woman facing loss as she returns to her conservative white hometown. This fearless book tackles issues such as race, isolation, childhood trauma, abandonment and ultimately healing. Homegoing won the Accents Publishing Inaugural Novella Contest and we are proud to publish this brilliant work.
What Others Say About Homegoing
Toni Ann Johnson has in Homegoing harnessed the unique power and grace of the novella. There's not a wasted word in this cinematically told, immediately engaging story, and yet the form affords her the length to develop characters whose deeply felt humanity makes them memorable.
—Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Coast of Chicago, a New York Times Notable Book
Toni Ann Johnson's novella Homegoing is the perfect story for this moment in history. How do we, as Black people, understand all of what is changing about racism and all that is not? All of this in a moment of massive upheaval. What can women learn about ourselves when our lives fall apart? Just like in Johnson's novel, the prose is beautiful. Yet in addition to the earnest prose, the novella brought unexpected laughter. Exactly the type of humor that we need to get through these tough times.
—Aya de Leon, author of A Spy in the Struggle
The poignant story of a discouraged middle-aged woman, a recently divorced, childless lounge singer who finds herself going back to the suburban town where she grew up as the only Black girl in her school. Maddie's caustic, quite funny, relationship with her mother Velma is at the heart of what is essentially a story of healing; a woman trying to find her way again.
—Nina Lorez Collins, NY Times-profiled author of What Would Virigina Wolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology and founder of The Woolfer
In her novella Homegoing, Toni Ann Johnson examines issues of race, racism, forgiveness, and family. Her prose is luminous yet wickedly funny—an enviable combination—and her characters searingly flawed. Homegoing is that rare, wondrous literary achievement: it makes you laugh even as it breaks your heart.
—Colette Sartor, author of Once Removed, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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Details and Ordering
Publication Date: May 1, 2021
Format: Softcover, 5" x 7"
ISBN: 978-1-936628-66-7
Price: $16.00
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About the Author
Toni Ann Johnson's novel Remedy For a Broken Angel was nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. She won the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Most Inspirational Fiction. Her stage plays have been produced by The Negro Ensemble Company (co-author "Here in My Father's House"), The New York Stage and Film Company ("Gramercy Park is Closed to the Public"), and in Los Angeles by The Fountainhead Theatre Company. Johnson is the recipient of two Humanitas Prizes and a Christopher Award for her screenplays Ruby Bridges, for Disney/ABC and Crown Heights, for Showtime Television. She wrote the Fox Television pilot Save The Last Dance and she co-wrote the feature film Step Up 2: The Streets. Johnson's essays and short fiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Xavier Review, Callaloo Journal, and elsewhere. She's been a Sundance Screenwriter's Lab Fellow, as well as a Callaloo Fellow in fiction at Brown University. Johnson has received additional support for her writing from The Prague Summer Program for Writers and the One-Story Summer Conference in Brooklyn. She teaches screenwriting at The University of Southern California.
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