Dawn and her baby sister, Kim, live in an apartment building in the South Chicago neighborhood known as Bronzeville. In the apartment above them lives Debra, Dawn’s best friend. The area is the hub of the Great Migration—Blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South for the prospect of prosperity and equality. Three Girls from Bronzeville is a memoir by Dawn Turner about how she, her ... Read More...
A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow
I often talk about diverse reading or reading outside my comfort zone, but it’s usually about heavy novels on difficult topics (like last week’s We Are Not Like Them), but how about FUN reading that falls in genres you don’t normally read? Such as fantasy or more specifically, fairy tales. We all know about Sleeping Beauty, but what if she were a young woman about to turn 21 ... Read More...
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. In The Rules of Magic Jet Owens and her siblings Franny and Vincent were dealing with their family’s curse about falling in love. Decisions were made and prices were paid. Now decades later both Jet and Franny live in the family’s house on Magnolia Street with their niece Sally, who’s suffered the most, losing two ... Read More...
We Are Not Like Them: A Novel
I’m a fan of diverse reading. There are so many places I’ve never gone and experiences I haven’t had in real life. Visiting them in the pages of a book helps expand my horizons and opens my mind in ways it wouldn’t be without reading. Sadly, there are issues happening right here in America that I may think I understand, but I truly have no idea. Racism is one of them and We Are ... Read More...
In Every Mirror She’s Black
I was pulled into In Every Mirror She’s Black by the premise of three Black women who end up living in Sweden. Kemi is a marketing executive who’s been recruited by a phenomenal compensation project and a leadership role to a Swedish agency. Brittany is a flight attendant who is swept away by the owner of the agency when he becomes obsessed with her. Muna is a Somali refugee ... Read More...
Fight Night: A Novel by Miriam Toews
Sometimes when we fight…sometimes we’re not fighting in quite the right way…we need to adjust our game. But still, the main thing is that we’re fighting…your mom’s a fighter. We’re all fighters. Swiv comes from a family of fighters. At nine she’s suspended from school because King of the Castle is not a recess game to her, it’s a battle. One that she will win at any cost, ... Read More...
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