Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction A splendid and grand collection Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize 8 winning author of The Known World portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America. In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten beautiful and vivid Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award 8winning and New York Times bestselling author stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born. In Due North, an obedient daughter struggles to understand why she is haunted by the spirit of her recently deceased father. In Whom Down a father, after a brief affair with vegetarianism, conspires with his daughter to order him a double cheeseburger. In Candy for Hanif a mother routine trip to the store for her disabled son takes an unlikely turn when she reflects on a near-death experience. In Woman in Niqab, a daughter suspicion of her father infidelity prompts her to wear her hair