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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
reflective
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
House Gone Quiet: Stories by Kelsey Norris
dark
emotional
reflective
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
5.0
A truly fantastic collection of short stories! With excellently developed stories and characters, I found myself wanting more from every story in this. There was a particularly great short story about a monument moved from the pedestal, where the public was then invited to sign up to stand up on the pedestal to do whatever they wanted and boy oh boy, all I could think about was our giant Monument pedestal here in Richmond. So much to digest on, with a lot of attention to race and class. I'm not usually the biggest short story fan, but Kelsey Norris has certainly made me more interested in the genre!
Great, great debut. Really looking forward to more from this author.
Great, great debut. Really looking forward to more from this author.
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Sandra Barrilaro, Teresa Aranguren
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
5.0
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
adventurous
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Elatsoe is one of my favorite books of all time, so I thought there was no possible way that Sheine Lende could compare.
AND YET!
I LOVED Sheine Lende. This book was reminiscent of a warm hug from your parents when coming inside from a thunderstorm. Building upon the amazing world Elatsoe held, this prequel is centered on Ellie's grandmother, a Lipan Apache teen named Shane. This book had it all - a beautiful and exciting world, a strong, smart, and brave main character, a reckoning with generational trauma, an appreciation and deep love of mothers and the matriarchal line. Not only was this book all of this and more, it was clever and well-written, with descriptive scenes and characters that felt like friends.
I'm grateful to be in a world where Darcie Little Badger's writing exists. And where Rovina Cai's art exists!! Darcie Little Badger is easily an auto-buy author for me and Sheine Lende only solidifies this.
I encourage all who read this book to learn more about the Lipan Apache Tribe, who continue to endure after hundreds of years of attempted colonization - i learned a lot from lipanapache.org, which also has a nice list of recommended reads (https://www.lipanapache.org/LAT/books.html) including βThe Light Gray People: An Ethno-History of the Lipan Apache's of Texas & Northern Mexico,β by Nancy McGown Minor. π
AND YET!
I LOVED Sheine Lende. This book was reminiscent of a warm hug from your parents when coming inside from a thunderstorm. Building upon the amazing world Elatsoe held, this prequel is centered on Ellie's grandmother, a Lipan Apache teen named Shane. This book had it all - a beautiful and exciting world, a strong, smart, and brave main character, a reckoning with generational trauma, an appreciation and deep love of mothers and the matriarchal line. Not only was this book all of this and more, it was clever and well-written, with descriptive scenes and characters that felt like friends.
I'm grateful to be in a world where Darcie Little Badger's writing exists. And where Rovina Cai's art exists!! Darcie Little Badger is easily an auto-buy author for me and Sheine Lende only solidifies this.
I encourage all who read this book to learn more about the Lipan Apache Tribe, who continue to endure after hundreds of years of attempted colonization - i learned a lot from lipanapache.org, which also has a nice list of recommended reads (https://www.lipanapache.org/LAT/books.html) including βThe Light Gray People: An Ethno-History of the Lipan Apache's of Texas & Northern Mexico,β by Nancy McGown Minor. π