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Books reviewed by Lisa Ahima at BookBrowse.

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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In Our Midst
by Nancy Jensen
In Our Midst follows a German immigrant family’s fight for freedom after their internment post–Pearl Harbor.
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