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Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist. This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and...
2) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of black country cooks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...
Author
Publisher
MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality."--
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This inspiring true story of the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author shows how she went from being the only Black child in her first-grade classroom — and the only student who could read — to becoming one of the greatest writers in modern history.
