Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo Overall: Adult fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, she’s written one for you! In Family Lore, the acclaimed YA author of The Poet X and With the Fire on High focuses on the women of the Marte family. From their childhood on a farm in the Dominican Republic to their current lives as busy…
Funny You Should Ask
by Elissa Sussman Overall: I’m going to be upfront and say, this is an “it’s not you, it’s me” review. Funny You Should Ask is a contemporary romance, which is a genre I almost never read. However, after reading all the raves on Bookstagram, I decided to give it a try. Chani’s a struggling writer…
Honey Girl
by Morgan Rogers Overall: Grace Power wakes up after a crazy night in Vegas trying to piece together what just happened. She’s wearing a “Bride” t-shirt she’s never seen before, and has a gold ring on her finger, a photograph of herself at a church with a woman whose name she doesn’t know, and a…
The Trees
by Percival Everett I wasn’t at all sure I would be able to get into The Trees, as I don’t read a lot of satire. But after two readers I trust wrote glowing reviews on Instagram, I knew I would attempt to read this novel, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2022. And I…
The Removed
by Brandon Hobson Overall: The Removed tells the story of a Cherokee family in the aftermath of their oldest teenage son’s death in a police shooting. When the reader meets them fifteen years after Ray-Ray’s death, everyone in the family has coped differently. Parents Maria and Ernest have tried to keep their son’s memory alive…
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Overall: This incredible family saga reaches back through history. In stories that intertwine, the reader moves back and forth from the modern-day experiences of Ailey Pearl Garfield all the way back to the earliest interactions of her ancestors, the Creek people of what is now Georgia and the first Black and…
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