lettersfromthelighthouse:Black authors on my shelvesBernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other: about
lettersfromthelighthouse:Black authors on my shelvesBernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other: about family, womanhood, and being black in present-day Britain Akwaeke Emezi - Freshwater: Split geographically between Nigeria and the US, this looks at identity, gender, mental health, and godhood Esi Edugyan - Washington Black: a postcolonial take on adventure novels and slave narratives that gives it’s main character a strong voice and agency Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric: poignant poetry about being black in present-day America Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers: a classic adventure romp by one of France’s most well-known authors, who people seem to forget was black If the one thing you can face doing today is picking up a book, you can always start with one of these. I’m not the right person to comment on current events - I’m neither black, nor American - except by saying that I hear you, I stand in solidarity, and I will not be complicit with my silence. Because Black. Lives. Matter. -- source link
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