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An American Marriage: A Novel

February 26, 2018

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Where are you left when you’ve been married for less than two years and your husband is sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit? This is the weighty premise of Tayari Jones’s new novel, An ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Algonquin Books, book clubs, contemporary life, marriage, racism, social issues, Southern life

The Hate U Give

January 8, 2018

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On the surface Starr Carter is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. But look closely and you’ll see a young woman struggling to make it in two very different worlds. Her home is a poor, largely black ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, HarperCollins, racism, social issues, young adult

Sing, Unburied, Sing

September 13, 2017

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  JoJo lives in Bois, a small town in rural Mississippi, with his Pop and Mam—his mother’s parents, and his little sister, Kayla. His mother, Leonie, is a sometime visitor, but drugs and other ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, family, literary, racism, Scribner, social issues

Everybody’s Son: A Novel

June 15, 2017

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When a novel opens during a heat wave with a ten-year-old boy breaking a window to get out of an apartment with no electricity after being left alone for a week while his mother goes out to buy drugs ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Harper, racism, social issues

Delicious Foods: A Novel

November 14, 2016

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Everybody black knows how to react to a tragedy. Just bring out a wheelbarrow full of the Same Old Anger, dump it all over the Usual Frustration, and water it with Somebody Oughtas…Then quietly set ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, literary, racism, social issues

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