& @catapultbooks.bsky.social which was an absolute treat.…
Huge feelings of gratitude all round that GREYHOUND brought me to New York where I met truly amazing writers, editors, publishing folk and serious book lovers. (3)
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We're Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat
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#Books We're Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat * Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky
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#Books Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky - Candida Royalle―underground actress, porn star, producer of adult content, and staunch feminist
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir by Erika Morillo
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Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir by
Erika Morillo - Morillo revisits her childhood growing up in the Dominican Republic, a place and time riddled with a history of violence and a tradition of erasure.
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu 144 pages • first pub 2024
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Zito Madu
144 pages • first pub 2024 "In the fall of 2020, as the pandemic raged around the globe, Zito Madu traveled to Venice for a writing fellowship.
Little Seed by Wei Tchou
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#Books Little Seed by Wei Tchou - Wei Tchou is first-generation Chinese American - Identity, Ferns, Oaxacan Cloud Forests, a sibling's psychotic break - this goes on my read-right-away nonfiction list.
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
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Beautyland by
Marie-Helene Bertino "She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings."
Us Fools by Nora Lange 340 pages • first pub 2024
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Us Fools by
Nora Lange
340 pages • first pub 2024 "A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s"