Amiable With Big Teeth Edwards, Brent Hayes

Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay’s life and work, this colourful, dramatic novel centres on the effort by Harlem intelligentsia to organise support for the liberation of Mussolini-occupied Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history. At once a penetrating satire of political machinations in Depression-era Harlem and a far-reaching story of global intrigue and romance, ‘Amiable with Big Teeth’ plunges into the concerns, anxieties, hopes and dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem.