“This novel follows three Zimbabwean men as they struggle to find places for themselves in a new society. As he wanders Edinburgh to a…
“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…
“In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections…
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“Recorded over six years, Raising Bertie delivers an authentic and tender portrait of the lives of three young boys as they face a…
“Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics…
“In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s…
“Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a multifaceted literary response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown…
“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…
“A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New…