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Saou Ichikawa's debut novel, Hunchback, is acerbic and sexy and lightly provocative, partly because of the "twisted" thoughts of its narrator and partly for its depiction of the erotic relationship ...
Read ReviewTomoko Yonezu: The Activist at the Intersection of Women's Liberation and Disability Rights in Japan
In Hunchback, protagonist Shaka considers writing her dissertation on Tomoko Yonezu, a women's liberation and disability rights activist. Yonezu may be most known for attempting to spray paint the ...
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Maeve Abenthy has spent the past seven years hiding her identity to avoid being connected to her father, who broke one of magic's biggest rules, thereby destroying a world and most of its ...
Read ReviewEmily J. Taylor's Inspirations
Emily J. Taylor's sophomore novel, The Otherwhere Post, is an academic young adult fantasy filled with haunting secrets, a fascinating magic system, and a sweet slow-burn romance. Taylor has ...
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Laila Lalami is an award-winning writer whose previous books include The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and Conditional Citizens. Our First Impressions reviewers gave The Dream Hotel an ...
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Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel takes place in a dystopian future in which government surveillance extends to dreams, and people can be arrested for being deemed a risk to society based on their ...
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Erica Skyberg is a popular English teacher and long-time community theater director, preparing to put on a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. She's more or less a pillar of the community, even ...
Read ReviewTransgender Support Organizations Serving Rural America
In Emily St. James's debut novel, Woodworking, the protagonist, Erica, must travel more than an hour each way, from Mitchell to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to attend a support group for transgender...
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Karim is the result of an unhappy marriage. His father is completely absent from his life after his parents' divorce, and his mother is emotionally distant and neglectful, then absent as well after ...
Read ReviewIn Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel Theft, multiple characters dream of seeing the world, but only some have the privilege of doing so in reality. Badar, whose economic situation puts travel out of reach, ...
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A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
Set predominantly in 2020, during the onset of COVID and resulting lockdowns, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe brings together a chorus of different voices, most of them young New Yorkers,...
Read ReviewThe Social Impact of COVID-19 on Young Adults
COVID-19 has had an immense impact on people of all ages, in all stages of life, and in all parts of the world. Mahogany L. Browne's novel A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe focuses on the ...
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Girl Falling
by Hayley Scrivenor
The USA Today bestselling author of Dirt Creek returns with a story of grief and truth.
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
by Colleen Oakley
Date Night meets Bel Canto in this hilarious tale.
The Devil Finds Work
by James Baldwin
A book-length essay on racism in American films, by "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review).
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