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The parallels become evidently clear in a later chapter in which Wideman writes unsparingly of his son’s incarceration for a 1986 murder. Somber and searching, Slaveroad is an impassioned meditation ...

Taking a page from Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, Fuller offers her own unsparing account of how she survived the pain of losing someone too soon. Buy Now: Fi on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Contact ...

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In “anti poetica,” the opening poem of Bluff by Danez Smith, they announce there is “no poem to free you.” Smith asks: How can one read poetry at a time like this? When our world is burning, when a ...

The protagonist is a wealthy Palestinian woman living in Brooklyn whose inheritance is all tied up. Despite the couture hanging in her closet ... Buy Now: The Coin on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & ...

The summer after college graduation is a time of confusing transition, and it’s then that we meet Isabel, adrift and searching for meaning. In The Skunks, Fiona Warnick’s protagonist has moved ...

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To understand how this happened, Min offers readers the gift of hindsight. She follows the family back in time to 2014, dissecting pivotal moments in their lives to show their impact on the family ...

Splinters centers on two defining moments in essayist Leslie Jamison’s life that happened to coincide: the birth of her daughter and her separation from her husband. The book keeps Jamison’s ...

Set 20 years before the original books, Absolution focuses again on the Southern Reach ... Buy Now: Absolution on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Write to Eliana Dockterman at ...