Malaya: Essays on Freedom
By: Cinelle Barnes
4.36
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay coll…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Books did not discriminate, at least not explicitly."-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Maybe I am finally the enigma she can’t decode. Maybe I like to be a mystery. What child of trauma doesn’t?"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Acting as family historian, I know now, is really just telling myself the story I already knew. I wait not on anybody else's affirmation, just my own. And here, in expecting only my own validation, is where my freedom lies."-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Books, art, fashion, history—were these not the things I had been erased from once I was deemed unfit to be a protected member of a state? Don’t we call them the humanities because they are supposedly what make us human, or acceptably human? Was being learned or worldly or talented not the currency that often bought me eye contact and first-name basis with guests and classmates and teachers?"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
4. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
5. Lucky Boy
By: Shanthi Sekaran
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound togeth… read more
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6. The Book of Night Women
By: Marlon James
3.87
Format: 252 pages,
The Book of Night Womenis a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and story… read more
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7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By: Tennessee Williams
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more
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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
8. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
By: Arthur Miller
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more
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9. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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11. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
12. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
13. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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14. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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15. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
18. The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
3.87
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more
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19. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
20. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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21. How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more
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22. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
23. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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24. House of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more
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25. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more
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"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
26. A Song to Drown Rivers
By: Ann Liang
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown … read more
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"Please,"-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers
"His eyes fluttered open, focused on me; it was how he had looked at me in all our time together, across the palace rivers, across the polished floors of his chambers, underneath the moonlight. no mat…"-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers
27. The Body Papers
By: Grace Talusan
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Paper… read more
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28. You're That Bitch: And Other Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself
By: Bretman Rock
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud."--Chelsea Handler A chaotically j… read more
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"A role could call for an indigenous Aeta woman and they would hire a half white, half Filipina woman and paint her skin Black just so she could play a maid."-Bretman Rock, You're That Bitch: And Other Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself
29. The Son of Good Fortune
By: Lysley Tenorio
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. But Excel knows that h… read more
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30. Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
By: Albert Samaha
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolen… read more
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31. Malaya: Essays on Freedom
By: Cinelle Barnes
4.36
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay coll… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"Books did not discriminate, at least not explicitly."-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Maybe I am finally the enigma she can’t decode. Maybe I like to be a mystery. What child of trauma doesn’t?"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Acting as family historian, I know now, is really just telling myself the story I already knew. I wait not on anybody else's affirmation, just my own. And here, in expecting only my own validation, i…"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Books, art, fashion, history—were these not the things I had been erased from once I was deemed unfit to be a protected member of a state? Don’t we call them the humanities because they are supposedl…"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
