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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Autogeography by Reginald Harris
The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George
Driving the King by Ravi Howard
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Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend: Review
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Saint Monkey
by Jacinda Townsend
WW Norton and Company
Reviewed by Danielle A. Jackson
In an interview with Fiction Writers’ Review, Jacinda Townsend shares that she tackled the writing of her novel in spurts, between her daughter’s naps. Continue reading
The Roving Tree: Review
Reading Time: 7 minutes
The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave
Open Lens/Akashic Books
Review by Danielle A. Jackson
The Roving Tree, the ethereal, sprawling debut novel Continue reading
Something Like Beautiful… by asha bandele
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Something Like Beautiful
One Single Mother’s Story
by asha bandele
HarperCollins
Reviewed by Danielle A. Jackson
asha bandele’s latest work, the memoir Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, reads as a dénouement or coda to her first work of prose published ten years earlier, The Prisoner’s Wife. Continue reading