Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair

From Book Trigger Warnings
Coffee Will Make You Black
Cover of Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Author(s) April Sinclair
Published 1995
Publisher Harper Perennial
Genre(s) Historical Fiction
Age group Young Adult


Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair is a young adult historical fiction novel, originally published in 1995. It is the first book in the Stevie Stevenson series.

Trigger Warnings

  • Alcohol (some underage)
  • Alcoholism
  • Antisemitism
  • Assault
  • Catcalling
  • Cheating (mentioned)
  • Classism
  • Colorism/Texturism
  • Corporal punishment of a child
  • Fat-shaming
  • Gun violence (mentioned)
  • Homophobia
  • Lesbiphobia
  • Misogynoir
  • Political assassination (mentioned)
  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Sexual coercion
  • Sexual harassment
  • Slavery (mentioned)
  • Smoking (some underage)
  • Tear-gas
  • Transphobia
  • Underage sex
  • Vietnam war (mentioned)

Representation

  • Black main character*
  • Questioning main character
  • Black side characters
  • Implied WLW side character

Tropes