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BOOK REVIEWS – Five ⭐️ Favorites Listed at Top

  • Four Treasures of the Sky – Jenny Tinghui Zhang
  • Deacon King Kong – James McBride
  • Shadows of Pecan Hollow – Caroline Frost
  • Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
  • The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles
  • Stork Bite – L. K. Simonds
  • Broken (in the best possible way) – Jenny Lawson
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blaine
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
  • Chevy in the Hole – Kelsey Ronan
  • Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett

Tag: #EnslavedPersonNarrative

Things Past Telling – Sheila Williams

Danger, love and safety are lost and found repeatedly in this fictional autobiography that opens in 1870 with the census taker filling out his form. An old Black woman sits at her home in Ohio. Is she 112? It makes no difference, She is at least 90. Her name in this world is Maryam Priscilla … Continue reading Things Past Telling – Sheila Williams →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment March 17, 2022 3 Minutes
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