“Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan, an autobiographical account of his birth and upbringing as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent…
“Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Jersey, is a Black community with a variety of classes and creeds. When plans for a…
“The novel’s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-…
“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the…