Category: Race
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JACKAL by ERIN E. ADAMS
It’s watching. Liz Rocher is going home. Nothing short of her best friend’s wedding would have gotten her to come back. She’s had some rough times lately too. A break-up, gained some weight, cut off her hair, and is now forced to wear a hot wig and all of that pales in comparison to the…
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Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system–the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, best-selling author of There There) When I saw that the author wrote this…
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NERUDA ON THE PARK by CLEYVIS NATERA
An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification A beautiful debut novel. Eusebia and her husband, Vladimir, along with their daughter, Luz, have lived in Nothar Park which is a predominately Dominican part of New York for twenty years.…
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THE BLACK AGENDA Edited by ANNA GIFTY OPOKU-AGYEMAN
“The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long-overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in…
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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past–a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. This story begins in the present with siblings, Byron and Benny dealing…
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