Book Review
Hood Wellness
Tamela J. Gordon’s memoir-cum-self-help book radically reimagines community care. Living in New York City, working as a server, and self-medicating with alcohol and drugs, Gordon was “Tired of everything.” “My Body wore...
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I Talk About It All the Time
Camara Lundestad Joof’s piercing memoir I Talk about It All the Time concerns the particularities of systemic racism in Scandinavia. Joof, who is a queer Black Norwegian Gambian woman, writes in Nynorsk—“the much less used of two...
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The Secret Library
National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon’s "The Secret Library" is a spellbinding tale of self-determination and family history. Eleven-year-old Dally seeks a new escapade after the death of her grandfather, who inspired her...
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Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves
J. Drew Lanham’s "Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves" is a stunning amalgamation of literary prose and poetry. Biology connects Lanham’s two worlds of wildlife and Black being. His entries are close studies of the rhythms and...
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
With chapters alternating between their two experiences with Vietnam, father-daughter duo Christina Vo and Nghia M. Vo’s soul-stirring memoir "My Vietnam, Your Vietnam" covers transgenerational understandings of cultural roots. In...
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Tyr the Viking
The supportive picture book "Tyr the Viking" subverts stereotypes in its tale of an admired Viking boy grappling with his feelings following a swordplay loss. Bjorn Fyrre’s third book in the Little Viking series, "Tyr the Viking", is a...
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Cage of Bone
Authentic and natural, the poetry collection "Cage of Bone" engages the discomfort of confronting every part of one’s story. In Irena Praitis’s poetry collection "Cage of Bone", the human body is a container for haunting tragedies...
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We Are the Wackadoodles
Working to demonstrate the dynamics within nontraditional families, We Are the Wackadoodles: Welcome to Our Blended Family is an ambitious, series-opening picture book. The first book in a series, T. A. Duggan’s picture book We Are the...
