“A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New…
“Lindanathi and his friends—Cecelia and Ruan—make their living working low-paying jobs and selling anti-retroviral drugs (during the period…
“This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate…
“Acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories…
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“Ocean Vuong’s first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial ‘big’--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory,…
“Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this…
“Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. Beginning with a sweetly funny,…
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“Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would…
“Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia will be…
“With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and…