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A Wish in the Dark
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontorvat Born in prison, Pong feels sure he’s destined to remain marginalized and oppressed forever....
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
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Elatsoe
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger When Ellie’s cousin Trevor dies unexpectedly in a car crash, Ellie is one of the first people to...
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Feb 3, 20212 min read
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
This is a galvanizing, paradigm-shifting book. In 8 chapters that also function as stand-alone essays, Gordon clearly and doggedly...
aolundsmith
Feb 3, 20212 min read
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If I Had Two Wings
If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan Sometimes short stories can feel like painful exercises to me. Their brevity can feel like roots...
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Dec 5, 20201 min read
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The Purpose of Power
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza The Purpose of Power is a guidebook to navigating political power, organizing, and movements....
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Nov 23, 20202 min read
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Tonguebreaker
Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha This book is a soft, wild, aching spell. It is glitter and guts. It is relentless...and...
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Nov 5, 20201 min read
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The Death of Vivek Oji
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi How many ways are there to know a person? You can know someone through their parents and their...
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Aug 25, 20201 min read
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The End of Policing
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale A clearly and articulately written rundown of the major areas in which police exert their power and...
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Aug 16, 20202 min read
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Supper Club
Supper Club by Lara Williams When I close my eyes to summon up an image that could represent this book, what I see is a sumptuous cake,...
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Aug 4, 20202 min read
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Kiss of the Fur Queen
Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway I had never heard of this novel, first published more than twenty years ago, until I read Joshua...
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Jul 20, 20202 min read
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A Good Kind of Trouble
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée This gentle but earnest middle grade novel takes on everything from protesting against racism...
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Jul 11, 20202 min read
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White Rage
White Rage by Carol Anderson Over and over again through the history of the USA, the advances of Black US Americans towards achieving...
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Jul 6, 20202 min read
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Breathe
Breathe by Imani Perry In an extended letter to her two sons, Imani Perry cleaves to the motions and demands of the heartmind more than...
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Jun 27, 20202 min read
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Underland
Underland by Robert McFarlane Early in my reading of Robert McFarlane’s Underland I decided to approach the book more as a book-length,...
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Jun 8, 20202 min read
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Homegoing
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi An expansive, peripatetic novel chronicling the journeys, joys, pains, triumphs, and atrocities suffered by two...
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Apr 10, 20202 min read
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Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner As seductive and stylish as the tech industry she chronicles, Anna Weiner’s memoir Uncanny Valley looks...
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Apr 2, 20202 min read
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The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus Thelonius Mitchell and Nehemiah Jones are used to people thinking they’re up to something:, for...
aolundsmith
Mar 29, 20202 min read
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My Sister the Serial Killer
My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Sharp, silky, stinging, sweet. Caustic and sarcastic, bloody and lovely. My Sister the...
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Mar 19, 20202 min read
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This Town Sleeps
"When teenagers make their grandiose plans of leaving, they say There’s nothing to do here. They don’t realize there are plenty of houses...
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Mar 19, 20202 min read
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Skin Folk
The stories in this collection, originally published in 2001, are united by their interest in spirits and shapeshifters, fairy tales and...
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Jan 14, 20202 min read
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