Marva James

Heartbreak doesn’t just break you—it reveals you. When the lives of five women shatter in different ways, each is forced to confront the truth she’s avoided, the choices she’s feared, and the version of herself she’s never fully claimed.

This gentle, musical book follows Marvin and his friends Lena and Diego as they step outside into a rainy day filled with rhythm, imagination, and joy. What begins with “Raindrops tapped a gentle beat on the roof” becomes a full symphony of puddles, umbrellas, and friendship.

Things That Fall Asleep at Night follows Marvin on a gentle nighttime journey through moonlit ponds, sleepy streetlamps, and whispering shadows.

A golf prodigy. A charismatic businessman. A man of brilliance, ambition, and contradiction. A daughter determined to understand him. Mississippi Junior traces the life of Jerry Benjamin Owens — from segregated Mississippi, to Detroit’s promise, to Jackson’s Black ,entrepreneurial rise.