Host Tiffani Staten digs into People Person by Candice Carty-Williams, a wild and heartfelt story about five half-siblings who are forced together after a violent incident and must decide what family truly means.

Through humor, chaos, and painful honesty, the siblings confront their absent father, grow into chosen roles, and learn that being a "people person" is about presence and acceptance, not charm. Like & Subscribe!

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Host Tiffani Staten reviews Cebo Campbell’s Sky Full of Elephants, a speculative novel that explores a post‑racial dystopia after an event causes white people to drown themselves. The episode addresses heavy themes, including suicide, generational trauma, identity, and the damage of internalized racism.

Staten reflects on characters’ journeys toward self‑actualization, the novel’s vision of a thriving Black community (the kingdom of Alabama), and the importance of collective healing, cooperative economics, and imagining liberation. The episode closes with a preview of December’s pick, People Person by Candace Carty-Williams.

On this episode of The Ink Is Black, host Tiffani Staten dives into Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis — a haunting exploration of family secrets, inherited pain, and the supernatural threads that bind them.

Through the story of Mira Owens’s search for truth, from her mother’s mysterious disappearance to a hidden world of vampires and werewolves, Tiffani unpacks how silence, shame, and sacrifice pass through generations like a curse.

Blending myth and metaphor, this episode asks: What does it take to break free from the cycles we didn’t create but still carry? With spoilers included, Tiffani reflects on how Lewis’s darkly magical tale reminds us that healing begins when we stop running from the past and start naming it.