Percival Everett’s latest novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the enslaved Black side character Jim, who temporarily accompanies Huckleberry Finn on his adventures in the original story. In his novel, Everett gives Jim the opportunity to tell his own story.
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Jennifer Neal always led a very mobile life and in her memoir My Pisces Heart she shares what it was like to live on four different continents as a Black queer woman.
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Nnedi Okorafor’s newest novel, Death of the Author, is an africanfuturist story about a writer named Zelu, who suddenly becomes world-famous overnight after writing a book about robots and artificial intelligence.
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Lieben (‘Loving’)is the new book by Emilia Roig which clearly differentiates itself from both of its predecessor.
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Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s debut novel is thought-provoking in its approach to language and culture and offers up a wonderful cast of characters.
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Aquariums – sitting perfectly at the intersection between a family chronicle and a pandemic tale, interwoven with the disastrous progression of the climate catastrophe – offers both indecisive and openminded readers alike a bridge between historical fiction and science fiction.
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A life-sucking horror haunts dreams of female kinship and the prairies in a suspenseful First Nations novel from Canada.
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When a book can make you look up at the sky once in a while, pause, draw in your breath, and gaze at the rustling leaves of the tree outside your window, what does it mean? That it is not gripping enough, or rather I believe that it wants everything around you to grip you completely.
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Wright did not create a story that is simply about the Aboriginal town of Praiseworthy in Northern Australia, she created a wholly Indigenous novel.
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Clayton Thomas-Müller’s Life in the City of Dirty Water, A Memoir of Healing is a must read, especially for people interested in climate justice, but it can also help non-Indigenous people to understand the struggles of Indigenous communities, particularly the ones in urban areas in North America.
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