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• Postcolonial Love Poem

  Diaz, Natalie,

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  Book of the Week, October 12, 2020: "Haven't they moved like rivers--/ like Glory, like light--/ over the seven days of your body?" -from the poem “These Hands, If Not Gods”  The Colorado River. Basketball. The Beloved. Sweet upside-down cake.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love After the End

  An Anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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  Book of the Week, October 5: “Love after the End is a book we need right now - and well beyond the now. The stories here are difficult, they're beautiful, they're hilarious and sad and frightening and hopeful. But more than all of that, they guide…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like a New Sun

  Six Contemporary Mexican Poets Writing in Indigenous Languages

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  Book of the Week, September 28: "Yellow flowers on the altar / Candle light. Copal smoke. /...For abundance, flowers."  Like A New Sun is co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Víctor Terán and translator David Shook and shares the brilliant work of six…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hex

  Knight, Rebecca Dinerstein,

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  Book of the Week, September 21: "First signs of my narcissus, scilla, glory-of-the-snow, bupleurum, larkspur. I stood in my own doorway, proud. Every bleakness had been replaced by periwinkle, byzantium, heliotrope..."   Hex is not your average…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See No Stranger

  a Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

  Kaur, Valarie,

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  Book of the Week, September 7: “How do we love in a time of turmoil? How do we labor for the world we want when the labor feels endless?” Renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer Valarie Kaur breaks it down for us, shares her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Major

  Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

  Lawson, Shayla,

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  Book of the Week, August 31: “I can still hear it when I see that photograph, the sound of my own laughter. My deep and pleasurable delight. The sound is a heavenly one. My laugh a broad inheritance. Within it, you’ll hear Zora and Hattie and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miracle Country

  a Memoir

  Atleework, Kendra, 1989-

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  Book of the Week, August 24: “All the parts of life—lonely, beautiful, terrible—mixed up in the right combination and lodged between these mountains...In a training session for the search-and-rescue team, she volunteered to be buried in the snow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• World of Wonders

  in Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

  Nezhukumatathil, Aimee,

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  Book of the Week, August 17: Lovers of axolotls and narwhals, this one’s for you! We love nature + memoir + Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poetry, so we are beyond jazzed for her new book “World of Wonders: In Praise Of Whale Sharks, Fireflies, and Other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parade

  a Folktale

  Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958-

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  Book of the Week, August 10: “Tell me a story from long ago.” August is Women in Translation month! Hiromi Kawakami explores what two of her characters might do on a summer’s day—the noodles they would eat, the nap they might take, the stories…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shadow King

  a Novel

  Mengiste, Maaza,

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  Book of the Week, August 3: “Sing, daughters, of one woman and one thousand, of those multitudes who rushed like wind to free a country from poisonous beasts. Sing, children, of those who came before you, of those who laid the path on which you…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew,

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  Book of the Week, July 27: “Fewer and fewer families can afford a roof over their head…Whatever our way out of this mess, one thing is certain. This degree of inequality, this withdrawal of opportunity, this cold denial of basic needs, this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Passage West

  a Novel

  Reddi, Rishi,

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  Book of the Week, July 20: “1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak’s offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm…The Valley is full of settlers hailing from other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swimming in the Dark

  a Novel

  Jedrowski, Tomasz,

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  Book of the Week, July 13: “It was the sort of early summer that erases any memory of other seasons, one where light and warmth clasp and feed you to the absolute.” Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski is a tender, lyrical historical novel about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Latitudes of Longing

  a Novel

  Swarup, Shubhangi,

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  Book of the Week, July 6: In July, dreamy cover art by illustrator QU Lan has us eager to dive into Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing, a lush, immersive debut novel with storytelling that sweeps readers across the natural world.

• Farming While Black

  Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

  Penniman, Leah,

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  Book of the Week, June 22: “Farming While Black encourages us to reach for the greatest and settle for nothing less. Know your history. Share and tell our stories. Pay respect and honor our elders. Pass on the gift of knowledge and fortitude to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Life

  Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.),

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  Book of the Week, June 15: “There is writing so exceptional, so intricately crafted that it demands reverence. The intimate prose of Brandon Taylor’s exquisite debut novel, Real Life, offers exactly that…Stunning work from a writer who wields his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pet

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  Book of the Week, June 8: “Beloved gave the world a long-suffering look, and Jam leaned against a cabinet with a grin plastered on her face, watching them banter. Even as they teased each other, Redemption’s parents were always tracking him with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homie

  Poems

  Smith, Danez,

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  Book of the Week, June 1: Poet Danez Smith sings out poems of love and intimacy in their 2020 collection Homie. In the poem “my president” they affirm all those who are their people, supporting their mama for president and their grandma for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold

  Zhang, C Pam,

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  Book of the Week, May 25: “How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a miracle, as timely as it is timeless, propulsive but also wonderfully meditative, a ferocious, tender epic about a vulnerable immigrant family trying to survive the American Gold Rush.…Read moreRead more of this annotation