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Cover of Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
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Linda Gartz
“Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one Black resident. As Blacks…
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Kiese Laymon
“In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a Black body, a Black family, and…
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Fatimah Asghar
“This imaginative, soulful debut poetry collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar…
Cover of The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
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Masīḥ ʿAlīnižād
“An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition, and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on…
Cover of Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness
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Judy Verseghy, Sam Abel
“Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around obesity impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-…
Cover of Insurrecto: A Novel
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Gina Apostol
“Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer’s…
Cover of Less: A Novel
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Andrew Sean Greer
“Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling…
Cover of Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
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Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
“Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience…
Cover of Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
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Xiaolu Guo
“Xiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir Nine Continents is…
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Carmen Maria Machado
“Her Body and Other Parties presents a collection of short stories about the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s…