“This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman’s face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living…
“For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem–each poem recalling the senseless loss…
“Almost forty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American…
“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…
“An anthology of more than 50 stories, memoirs, poems, ideas, essays and letters–all examining what it looks like, feels like, and is like…
“This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate…
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“A full-length account of the author’s prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of…
“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,…