Adult Fiction 3/3

America is Not the Heart

America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo "What Hero loved most wasn't the cadre names people chose, but the word kasama itself:...

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Nov 2, 20183 min read

What We Lose What We Lose tells the tale of a young, mixed woman named Thandi and the grief she experiences upon the death of her mother....

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Oct 16, 20181 min read

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan On a tense and perhaps ill-fated evening in Barbados in 1830, young Washington Black departs the only...

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Oct 10, 20181 min read

"Thoughts, Voices, and Grandparents plant corn on top of the sacred mound and hundreds of years come into view in the dance of Green Corn...

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Aug 3, 20183 min read

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Almost all of us are claimed as subjects of a nation as soon as we are born. Whether or not we’d...

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Jun 20, 20183 min read

Amiable with Big Teeth by Claude McKay Declined for publication when first written and subsequently lost in an archive for nearly seventy...

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Jun 4, 20181 min read

“Perhaps they had grasped that the doors could not be closed, and new doors would continue to open, and they had understood that the...

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May 19, 20181 min read

A catalogue of cruelties large and small, beautiful and painful studs this book. The cruelties children inflict upon one another are...

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May 19, 20183 min read

“The book told of kamikaze pilots, flying off to their suicide missions…The pilots had made a pledge to the emperor, and they’d kept...

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Mar 27, 20182 min read

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen “Here, we can dream of anything, can’t we, ladies and gentlemen? I will tell you what my American...

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Mar 1, 20182 min read

Essential points: Both an eloquent exploration of life under colonialism and patriarchy as well as simply how “things can change in a...

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Feb 15, 20183 min read

Essential points: This book is great for folks wanting an engrossing family story and/or who like magical realism—think One Hundred Years...

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Jan 25, 20183 min read