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“This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color–women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese descent–as students pursuing terminal…
“The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their ‘conversation.’…
“In the tradition of Mark Doty’s Heaven’s Coast comes an original memoir from the acclaimed poet and author about the accident that left him a paraplegic, and his struggle to find…
“With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Rahul Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in Quarantine--openly gay Indian-American men--are…
“This novel of a young Samoan-American’s search for authenticity is ‘a rollercoaster ride inside the haunted house of American multi-cultural sin and shame’ (Sherman Alexie). The…
“Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the Definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: ‘This is a contemporary book, you bet.’ Indeed, Black Like Me remains required…
“Thinking in Indian: A John Mohawk Reader presents the Native perception of philosopher-thinker-activist John Mohawk (Sotsisowah). An elder of the Seneca Nation and a deeply…
“How does a contemporary woman with a career as a poet, professor, and editor experience motherhood with one small child, another soon to be born, and her own mother suddenly…
“This collection of twenty stories delves into the lives of Egyptian characters, from those living in Egypt to those who have immigrated to the United States. With subtle and…
“A noted memoirist relates his time serving in World War II, during which he experienced the terrors of armed conflict, as well as came to terms with his sexuality, experienced…