A captivating magical realist tale of Black motherhood set in Harlem.
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A captivating magical realist tale of Black motherhood set in Harlem.
It’s a slim memoir, but one of the best books I’ve read this year, hands down.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is marvelous. The book is half analysis of short stories, half instruction on how to write short stories, and another half Saunders reflecting on writing, reading, and Russian authors.
An incisive satire of corporate America and tech start-ups.
A midwife in 1849 America joins up with the Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of female outlaws.
At its heart, Detransition Baby is the story of three women: Reese, a trans woman who desperately wants to be a mother and self-sabotages by sleeping with married men; Ames, who was Amy, who detransitioned from living as a trans woman; and Katrina, a Chinese Jewish woman who is pregnant with Ames’s baby.
It took me legitimately five tries to start Hurricane Season, but once I finally got into it, god damn what a book.
At its heart, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau is a story of stories — and a story of exile.
Men We Reaped is the story of author Jesmyn Ward’s life growing up Black in rural Mississippi and of five men in her life, including her brother, who died in the span of four years.
