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Jun 17

Someone Knows My Name

Someone Knows My Name

Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
by Lawrence Hill
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

And now I am old
{LONDON, 1802}

I SEEM TO HAVE TROUBLE DYING. By all rights, I should not have lived this long. But I still can smell trouble riding on any wind, just as surely as I could tell you whether it is a stew of chicken necks or pigs’ feet bubbling in the iron pot on the fire.  Read more

Jun 7

How To Escape From A Leper Colony

The Saving Work

Excerpt
How to Escape from a Leper Colony
by Tipanie Yanique
Graywolf Press

A church is burning down. On a Caribbean island, in the countryside, up a road that might lead to a saving beach, but does not— a church is burning down. Read more