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Lisa Ahima

"Lisa Ahima is a New Orleans-based, black writer and content creator. She works for a major literary agency, a black-owned bookstore, and judges fiction for a literary magazine. She especially loves lyric essays, fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. She owns "The Black Joy Podcast," a visual podcast about breaking out of the idea behind a "black monolith," exploring in a digestible manner the different facets of black media representation while balancing academic sources, accessible language, and meme culture, which you can view here.

Books reviewed by Lisa Ahima

The Message (11/06/24)
The Night Guest (09/18/24)
Craft (06/19/24)
Let Us Descend (10/18/23)
Happiness Falls (10/04/23)
The Lost Ticket (10/05/22)
Nobody's Magic (03/16/22)

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    The Girls of Good Fortune
    by Kristina McMorris
    Brave the Shanghai tunnels in this tale of love, identity, and resilience passed through generations.

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    A dazzling debut by Jemimah Wei about ambition, sisterhood, and family bonds in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

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    In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.

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    Awake in the Floating City
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    A debut novel about an artist and a 130-year-old woman bound by love and memory in a future, flooded San Francisco.

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