Purchase a copy for yourself here! Sarah Elaine Smith’s debut novel, Marilou is Everywhere, is a less than glamorous coming-of-age story about what it means to be an outsider in one’s own body. The novel, set in a quiet town in southwestern Pennsylvania, is told from the perspective of fourteen-year-old Cindy Stoat. Cindy’s mother often… Continue reading Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith
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The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Ta-Nehisi Coates’ hotly anticipated debut novel The Water Dancer is a lyrical creation from one of America’s foremost cultural critics. Coates is a widely read essayist and former national correspondent for The Atlantic, the author of such nonfiction bestsellers as Between the World and Me and We Were Eight… Continue reading The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Purchase a copy for yourself here! How We Fight for Our Lives is the debut memoir from award-winning poet and former Buzzfeed editor, Saeed Jones. Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Lewisville, Texas. The memoir is about what it means to be a black gay man in the South, and the survival… Continue reading How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Purchase a copy for yourself here! “You will find society asking you for the happy ending, saying come back when you’re better, when what you say can make us feel good, when you have something more uplifting, affirming. The ugliness was something I never asked for, it was dropped on me, and for a long… Continue reading Know My Name by Chanel Miller