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“In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a Black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant,…
“The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff…
“Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. This is a collection of…
“In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are…
“Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being…
“A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and…
“Fearful of violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her…
“The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the…
“When a stack of pulpy paperback novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she - a white woman - had been married to a Black man from…
“Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They’ve been together for a few years, but now they’re not sure why they’re still a…