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.
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.
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.
Many reviews have called the book “essential reading” for an election year — but I’ll go further than that. It’s essential reading to understand the America we live in today.
I learned so much about the life of Arthur Ashe, but I wish it was less granular in the tennis details and more thorough look at how Ashe balanced tennis, health, and politics.
Overall a fun novel about girls becoming women, sports, and a dash of witchcraft.
What I loved about Book of the Little Axe is how expertly Francis-Sharma wove histories of Trinidad, the American West, American Indigenous peoples, and enslaved peoples in the Americas.
I read Boys of Alabama while waiting for a delayed flight in a tiny airport in Jackson Hole a few months ago, but it is finally out in the world and I want to tell you about it.
