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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

This book was absolutely beautiful. While I've read a few epistolary novels, this one really struck out to me in how is captures the desire to bear all while clinging on to a need to restrain ones thoughts as a defence mechanism. In bear...

Miracle Creek

by Angie Kim

While the subject matter of a young single mother accused of killing her autistic son is pretty challenging to read, the novel certainly is engaging throughout. With a multitude of characters, it may be a slow burn for some but given the...

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

by Johny Pitts

Now, I'm openly biased when I say I loved this book. Having studied European Studies with French and Spanish I could probably count the number of works by and or centered Black Europeans that I studied throughout my 4 years of study on o...