Луиза Эрдрич3.9 1953 год. Томас, прототипом которого стал дед автора, работает ночным сторожем на заводе по производству подшипников из драгоценных камней — первом заводе, расположенном недалеко от резервации племени Черепашьей горы в Северной Дакоте. Как член Совета индейцев Чиппева, он пытается предотвратить последствия нового законопроекта об «эмансипации», который уже скоро может принять Конгресс Соединенных Штатов. Томас знает, что, если закон будет принят, племя прекратит существование, и сделает все, чтобы не допустить этого.
Румаан Алам2.7 Желая провести немного времени вдали от шумного города, Клэй и Аманда снимают домик на Лонг-Айленде и вместе с детьми отправляются в долгожданный отпуск. Настроенные на приятный отдых, они не заметят знаков, не почувствуют перемен, витающих в воздухе. Лишь когда ночью к ним в дверь постучатся незнакомцы, представившиеся хозяевами дома, и сообщат, что в Нью-Йорке случился блэкаут, а повсюду происходит что-то пугающее, Клэй и Аманда почувствуют неладное. Но могут ли они доверять этим людям? Что у них на уме? Кто они — угроза или спасение?
Сьюзен Абулгава5.0 A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East, for readers of international literary bestsellers including Washington Black, My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Her Body and Other Parties.
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.
Даниэль Эванс3.5 The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history.
Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history.
She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief--all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history--about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight.
In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. In "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain," a photojournalist is forced to confront her own losses while attending an old friend's unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the eye-opening title novella, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk.
Рандалл Кенан0.0 When Randall Kenan’s first collection was published, the New York Times called it “nothing short of a wonder-book.” Now, with inventiveness seasoned by maturity and shot through with humor, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, on unstoppable losses and unexpected salvations.
In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans.
A rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit, If I Had Two Wings is a glory.
Тола Ротими Абрахам0.0 Following the fate of one family over the course of two decades in Nigeria, this debut novel tells the story of each sibling’s search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy but also endless life
“I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.”
Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth.
Soon Bibike and Ariyike’s father wagers the family home on a “sure bet” that evaporates like smoke. As their parents’ marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power.
Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.
Brit Bennett4.1 From The New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise
Диана Кук3.4 Нигде не обживаться. Не оставлять следов. Всегда быть в движении.
Вот три правила-кита, которым нужно следовать, чтобы обитать в Новых Дебрях.
Агнес всего пять, а она уже угасает. Загрязнение в Городе мешает ей дышать. Беа знает: есть лишь один способ спасти ей жизнь — убраться подальше от зараженного воздуха.
Единственный нетронутый клочок земли в стране зовут штатом Новые Дебри. Можно назвать везением, что муж Беа, Глен, — один из ученых, что собирают группу для разведывательной экспедиции.
Этот эксперимент должен показать, способен ли человек жить в полном симбиозе с природой. Но было невозможно предсказать, насколько сильна может стать эта связь.
Эта история о матери, дочери, любви, будущем, свободе и жертвах.
Джулиана Дельгадо Лопера0.0 Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.
Uprooted from Bogotá into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up in an evangelical church, replete with abstinent salsa dancers and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca meets the magnetic Carmen: head of the youth group and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates, Francisca falls for Carmen and is saved to grow closer with her, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion.
Akwaeke Emezi3.9 Named one of the year’s most anticipated books by The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and more
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.
Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.
Яа Гьяси4.0 Гифти, дочь мигрантов из Ганы. Ее семья прилетела в Америку, но до сих пор девушка чувствует себя чужой, потерянной между двумя странами, религией и наукой.
Девушка учится на шестом курсе факультета неврологии в Стэнфорде, где изучает нейронные цепи поведения, связанного с жаждой вознаграждения, и депрессию и проводит эксперименты на мышах. Научные опыты для Гифти (она пытается отучить мышей от саморазрушающих действий в стремлении к удовольствию) — способ разобраться в том, что происходит в ее собственной семье: избавить брата от зависимости, спасти мать от депрессии.
Несколько лет назад брат Гифти, одаренный спортсмен, умер от передозировки героином, отец вернулся в Гану, а мать уже много лет не в силах побороть клиническую депрессию (исцелиться она надеется молитвами).
Обращаясь к науке, Гифти упорно продолжает искать ответы в лоне церкви, воспитавшей ее. Спасение, которое обещает церковь, злит девушку и вызывает ощущение безысходности. Преуспевающая в науке в одном из лучших университетов мира, Гифти вспоминает о семье, в которой выросла: в их отношениях всегда недоставало теплоты, но их было четверо, а осталось лишь двое. В свои 28 лет Гифти остро чувствует одиночество, ведет дневник, в котором рассказывает о семье под вымышленными именами и ведет беседы с Богом. Она находит подругу — коллегу по лаборатории Кэтрин, и молодого человека Хана, с кем легче нести багаж прошлого.
Lydia Millet3.3 Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.
Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group’s ringleaders—including Eve, who narrates the story—decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.
As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.
A Children’s Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide—and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation
Брендон Тейлор3.6 Держать людей на расстоянии уже давно вошло у Уолласа в привычку. Нет, он не социофоб. Просто так безопасней. Он — первый за несколько десятков лет черный студент на факультете биохимии в Университете Среднего Запада. А еще он гей. Максимально не вписывается в местное общество, однако приспосабливаться умеет. Но разве Уолласу действительно хочется такой жизни? За одни летние выходные вся его тщательно упорядоченная действительность начинает постепенно рушиться, как домино. И стычки с коллегами, напряжение в коллективе друзей вдруг раскроют неожиданные привязанности, неприязнь, стремления, боль, страхи и воспоминания.
Брайан Вашингтон3.6 A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years--good years--but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other.
But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it.
Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end.
