What I’m Reading: Lakewood by Megan Giddings
The other day I was telling my cousin the story of Henrietta Lacks. I don’t know how it came up, probably amidst a conversation on the atrocities perpetuated on Black bodies. She was…
Tag: Diverse Fiction & Nonfiction
Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan
Along with sorting out my tbr, I’m also reading Sonia Kamal’s Unmarriageable: Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan. It is an exquisite marriage (yes, pun!) of all the things I love reading about in…
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Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
I was at the grocery store the other day and as I was wandering up and down the aisles I started thinking about short stories and how much I used to like them…
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing opens with a young woman sitting in an Indian passport and visa office in an unidentified city in the United States (my guess is somewhere in California). …
Path To My African Eyes by Ermila Moodley
Thandie has just moved with her parents from South Africa to the United States after her father receives a teaching position at a California university. Thandie has a rough beginning as her family…
I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
This was my first time reading Terry McMillan, and I so wanted to enjoy Georgia and her motley assortment of zany daughters, parents, neighbors, best friends, co-workers, and former lovers. Alas, it was not…
Books By Terry McMillan
