'Linden Hills', by Gloria Naylor: hell is an American suburb. The American writer changed the course of African-American literature in the 1980s with this narrative.

Conceived as a rewriting of Dante's Divine Comedy, Linden Hills is the second novel by the winner of the National Book Award. Naylor explores, Naylor, the control mechanisms of every community, with the acidity of a suburban classic, but a classic, for once, black. The main one has to do with the monstrosity of pursuing a dream that will never let it exist.