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This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma. Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world—from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kam...
Fatima Bhutto
Feb 17, 2021By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-ol...
Friday Black
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In the stories of Adjei-Brenyahs debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, enra...
Fatima Bhutto
Aug 02, 2019Nobody
Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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Named a Best Book of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Editors Choice Nautilus Award Winner A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature. The New York Times In this thought-provoking and important (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of ...
Fatima Bhutto
May 17, 2019