![]() You’re reshaping an ongoing conversation. I wanted to see more stories about awkward, nerdy black people, and black people who were the only ones in a particular space, and what it meant to navigate the many different kinds of identity construct. I’d grown up feeling like I was the only black person like myself, though of course that wasn’t the case. I want to read more about people who have had experiences similar to my own. I wanted to think about what it means to be a black person today but also respond to what James McCune Smith was theorising almost 200 years ago. ![]() Much of it is dealing with the same issues we’re dealing with today – and now we have a president who is very vocal about his racism. ![]() My husband is a professor of literature and he writes a lot about McCune Smith and other 19th-century writers who were publishing sketches in Frederick Douglass’s newspapers – he would come downstairs excited and talk about this research. The title of your collection comes from the 19th-century abolitionist James McCune Smith and his sketches Heads of the Colored People. The collection has been shortlisted for the Gordon Burn prize. Her debut short-story collection, Heads of the Colored People, which portrays the lives of contemporary African Americans, was described by Booker prize winner George Saunders as “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart and verbally inventive”. ![]() Nafissa Thompson-Spires was born in San Diego, California and studied creative writing as a graduate student at the University of Illinois and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ![]()
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"There are plenty of Gypsies in the Warsaw ghetto. ![]() ![]() It's a strong debut for New Zealand author Maclagan. Nevertheless, the intersection of action, espionage, and drama makes for solid popcorn entertainment: readers will gladly sit back and watch Alexandra navigate the obstacle course that comes with playing her role too well. Numerous twists keep this The Americans%E2%80%93style thriller from becoming predictable, though the multiple layers of truth and revelation do require some hefty suspension of disbelief. Maclagan, author of They Call Me Alexandra Gastone After the terrible battle against the Enhanced Ones, Seven and Corin find themselves on the run. ![]() ![]() When Perun unexpectedly activates her as an agent, Alexandra realizes that she's not entirely willing to betray her friends and family. Alexandra loves her new life and the "grandfather" she lives with, but she knows not to get too close to anyone. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. She answers to Perun, a secret agency dedicated to freeing her homeland of Olissa from outside influences. ![]() She's actually Milena Rokva, a sleeper agent who replaced the real Alexandra (who died in a car accident with her parents) years ago in order to eventually infiltrate the CIA. Everything about Alexandra Gastone, a 17-year-old American high school student, is a lie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever-even if she is the only reason their already broken family could fall apart. Just when he thinks his life is returning to normal, he notices Cami sitting alone at a table at The Red Door.Īs the baby sister of four rowdy brothers, Cami believes she'll have no problem keeping her new friendship with Trenton Maddox strictly platonic. His friends wanted to be him, and women wanted to tame him, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, Trenton leaves campus to come to grips with the crushing guilt.Įighteen months later, Trenton is living at home with his widower father, and works full-time at a local tattoo parlor to help with the bills. Trenton Maddox was the king of Eastern State University, dating co-eds before he even graduated high school. Now tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn't have time for much else besides work and classes, until a trip to see her boyfriend is cancelled, leaving her with a first weekend off in almost a year. She has held down a job since before she could drive, and moved into her own apartment after her freshman year of college. A Beautiful Funeral (The Maddox Brothers 5) by Jamie McGuire. Beautiful Oblivion (Maddox Bothers #1) - Blurbįiercely independent Camille ‘Cami’ Camlin gladly moved on from her childhood before it was over. 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Early in Namwali Serpell’s brilliant and many-layered debut novel, a turn-of-the-century British colonialist named Percy Clark wanders through the corner of what was then called Northwest Rhodesia (and is now the nation of Zambia) and complains: “I do seem plagued by the unpunishable crimes of others.” It is, in a sense, a fitting slogan for the many ruinous aftereffects of colonialism, except here it is spoken by an agent and beneficiary of the colonizer. ![]() ![]() ![]() He laughs and claims that he knew it all along, but the reader can see that he is quite embarrassed by the whole ordeal. Near the end of the book, Grover makes one last frantic plea not to turn the final page, only to discover on that page, in a surprise self-referential plot twist, that the monster is himself. ![]() He ties pages together, nails one page to the next one, and builds a large brick wall, but none of these work (mostly because they are merely illustrations, not actual obstacles). He immediately begs the reader not to finish the book, to avoid meeting the monster.Īs the book continues, Grover constructs a series of obstacles in hopes of preventing the reader from reading further. Having read the book's title, Grover is horrified to learn that there is a monster at the end of the book. It has since become the all-time bestselling Sesame Street book title and has been cited as a modern classic of children's literature. It was written by series writer and producer Jon Stone and illustrated by Michael Smollin, and originally published by Little Golden Books in 1971. The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover (or simply The Monster at the End of This Book) is a children's picture book based on the television series Sesame Street and starring Grover. ' Would You Like To Play Hide and Seek with Lovable, Furry Old Grover?' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But readers in the field will already have studied this information more in-depth in the originals and may find themselves questioning the point of a breakneck tour of the sciences that contributes nothing novel. This is great for Bryson fans, who can encounter this material in its barest essence with the bonus of having it served up in Bryson's distinctive voice. Bryson relies on some of the best material in the history of science to have come out in recent years. ![]() "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What follows is a brick of a volume summarizing moments both great and curious in the history of science, covering already well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics and so on. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson ( In a Sunburned Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Time’s recurrence is marked by the moon and the sun. The present sits on the cusp of a hopeful future. Vladimir remembers, and Estragon forgets. Estragon’s shoes stink, while Vladimir adheres to a diet of garlic to ease the symptoms of his condition. These two are ill-starred but well-suited: Estragon’s feet are in constant pain, and Vladimir’s unspecified affliction induces frequent and painful urination. As they await their enigmatic patron, Godot, Estragon laments being beaten by nameless figures during the night, and Vladimir seeks to pass the time by stirring his companion into repartee. Each act begins with the pair reunited after spending the night apart. Two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait on the side of a country road. ![]() Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed it “a play in which nothing happens, twice.” Samuel Beckett originally subtitled his 1953 play Waiting for Godot “a tragicomedy in two acts”. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also disliked the gay hate, and that people got beaten up because they are gay. Making Chelsea the scapegoat for everything, turning her role into something gold and pure, like it wasn't her fault at all. Always hurting people, not caring about destroying people if they are in the way of your perfect little li(f)e. ![]() I really disliked Kristen and her "friends". Especially since she keeps to her vow, she never says anything, no matter the situation, no matter how she bullied. But after all that happened, and her decision of taking a vow of silence, I started to like her. That she kinda of caused, though she didn't know what the consequences were.Ĭhelsea was a good character, though I didn't really like her in the beginning, I found her untrustworthy, a puppet, blabbermouth. ![]() I loved the idea, a girl who can't stop blurting out everything that she sees or hears takes a vow of silence after something horrible happens. ![]() ![]() ![]() This valuable interdisciplinary resource provides a succinct overview of the doctrine of creation that is informed by a discussion on identity. ""Writing in the shadow of mass killings of unarmed black persons in the United States, Lightsey's Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology is a timely publication. ![]() ![]() Theological reflection on contemporary debates such as same-sex marriage and ordination rights make this book a valuable resource to clergy, students of theology, LGBTQ persons and allies. The author privileges their narratives and experiences as she reviews several doctrines and dogma of the Christian church. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology. Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. ![]() Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. ![]() |