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    Real Americans

    Rachel Khong's sophomore novel Real Americans is an intergenerational saga that questions racial and cultural identity and our control over our destinies. Over the course of the book, we meet May, her...

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    Chinese Science During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

    May, the matriarch of Rachel Khong's Real Americans, is born into a poor rural Chinese family in the 1950s. Her fate is foretold by her mother's life: wake before dawn to cook breakfast, clean up ...

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    The Creation of Half-Broken People

    Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's outstanding fourth novel is narrated by a self-described nameless woman, originally from the City of Kings (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe). As the story opens, she's traveled to the "New ...

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    The Influence of King Solomon's Mines on The Creation of Half-Broken People

    King Solomon's Mines, a novel by H. Rider Haggard, is referenced throughout Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's African gothic historical fiction work The Creation of Half-Broken People. After Henry ...

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    Hot Air

    Single mother Joannie is finally putting herself out there. She's on her first date since her divorce several years earlier, eating dinner with fellow single parent Johnny in his backyard, when a ...

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    Hot Air Balloons

    The novel Hot Air begins with a hot air balloon falling from the sky into a backyard pool. Hot air balloons have a long history dating back to the eighteenth century, significantly predating the ...

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    Say Hello to My Little Friend

    Twenty-year-old Ismael Reyes is making a living in Miami as an impersonator of the rapper/singer Pitbull when he receives a cease-and-desist letter from the entertainer's lawyers. In search of a new ...

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    Elián González

    In Say Hello to My Little Friend, main character Izzy Reyes traveled by raft from Cuba to the United States in 2003 at age seven with his mother, who drowned during the trip. It is mentioned in ...

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    The Pretender

    After 500 years, Tudor history has every right to be stale. Its cut-throat court politics have been hashed and rehashed by novelists, poets, and playwrights since Henry VIII was still picking wives. ...

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    The Pale in Ireland

    In Jo Harkin's new novel The Pretender, Lambert Simnel—a long-shot hopeful for the English throne—is taken to raise an army in the English Pale in Ireland, the last Tudor stronghold on...

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    Happy Land

    Dolen Perkins-Valdez is an established author of historical novels, including Take My Hand, previously reviewed by our First Impressions readers and voted a BookBrowse Top 20 title of 2022. Reviewers ...

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    The Kingdom of the Happy Land

    Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, which follows a group of formerly enslaved people who build a self-sustaining community on a mountainous plot of land in the Carolinas during the Reconstruction...

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