Knitting the Fog
By: Claudia D. Hernández
4.01
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Weaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry, Claudia D. Hernández’s lyrical debut follows…
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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
2. We the Animals
By: Justin Torres
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more
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"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
3. The Dark Bride
By: Laura Restrepo
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Once a month, the refinery workers of the Tropical Oil Company descend upon Tora, a city in the Col… read more
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- latin american
4. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- latin american
- nonfiction
5. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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6. Like Son
By: Felicia Luna Lemus
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking second novel that recalls both Sandra Cisneros and Andre Breton. Finalist for the … read more
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7. Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
By: Medea Benjamin , None
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The award-winning oral history of Elvia Alvarado, a courageous campesina (peasant) activist in Hond… read more
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8. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
By: Hawon Jung
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Clap When You Land
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more
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- poetry
"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"I have my fingerprints all over you. & I don't need the world to see them to know that they're there."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
10. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
11. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- adult
12. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- the united states of america
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
13. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- poetry
- adult
14. Damnation Spring
By: Ash Davidson
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will… read more
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- adult
15. The Visitors
By: Jane Harrison
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more
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16. My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
By: Jennine Capó Crucet
4.16
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In this sharp and candid collection of essays, first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explor… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
17. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
By: Karen Cheung
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider's account of Hong Kong--from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music s… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"People often characterize depression as a lack of hope or vitality, but I associate it more with a restlessness, an inability to feel at peace. You’re on the couch watching Netflix in furry pajamas, …"-Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
18. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
19. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By: Sarah McBride
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
20. Jameela Green Ruins Everything
By: Zarqa Nawaz
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I had to be killed and then me getting a… read more
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- adult
21. Knitting the Fog
By: Claudia D. Hernández
4.01
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Weaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry, Claudia D. Hernández’s lyrical debut follows… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- the united states of america
- latin american
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- international
