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Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing... |
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James McBride
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James McBride is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. The author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Color of Water. A former reporter for The Washington Post and People magazine, McBride holds a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia... |
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Book
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This majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic. An intimate portrait of three generations of a family... |
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Deacon King Kong
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling novel - a love story of race and identity - from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu... |
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Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue - Random House
Format: Book
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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant... |
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Exit West: A Novel
MOHSIN HAMID - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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The astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet - sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed.
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very... |
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities,... |
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Grove Press
Format: Book
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The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese... |
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding... |
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The Leavers
Lisa Ko - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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A vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging,The Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away—and how one woman learns to live with the mistakes of her past.
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction.... |
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E Butler - Seven Stories Press
Format: Book
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Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people... |
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