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Cover of The Famished Road
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Ben Okri
“As his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, battles the evil spirits who are…
Cover of Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
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Farah Bashir
“Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir’s adolescence spent in Srinagar in the 1990s. As Indian troops and militants battle across the cityscape and…
Cover of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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Tarana Burke
“From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about…
Cover of Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
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Talib Kweli
“Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who wandered the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who…
Cover of Waiting for the Waters to Rise
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Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox
“Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now…
Cover of The Rib King
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Ladee Hubbard
“For fifteen years August Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who plucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part of the…
Cover of Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
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Rajiv Mohabir
“Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race,…
Cover of The Cotillion, or, One Good Bull is Half the Herd
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John Oliver Killens
“Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the…
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Joy Sorman, Catherine Lacey
“For centuries, the women in Ninon Moise’s family have been afflicted by obscure, inexplicable medical phenomena. Seventeen-year-old Ninon is no exception to this bizarre family…
Milk Blood Heat: Stories
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Dantiel W. Moniz
“Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by…