Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is ...

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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick""A riveting mother-daughter tale."" — Elle""Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington PostA sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of...

Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help!From Reese’s Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own.“Tender and heartfelt, Now You See us also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. An uplifting story of courage and hope that will keep you enthralled until the very last...

From the author of The Christmas Wager comes a charming holiday rom com about a young, recently heartbroken woman who is tasked by her sister to complete Advent calendar challenges in the lead up to Christmas to reignite her belief in herself, the holidays, and love again.She’s given up on love and Christmas…but fate has other plans.All Callie wants for Christmas is to hibernate. She's still reeling from being dumped by her childhood sweet...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s se...

“A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community BoardThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectat...

Esto es lo que puede suceder si no cuidamos nuestro mas preciado tesoro: La naturaleza.

An icon of Latin American literature captures the strangeness of childhood as he explores the aftermath of a long-ago injury in this “searching, lyrical memoir” with elements of magical realism “reminiscent of García Márquez” (Kirkus Reviews)Homero Aridjis has always said that he was born twice. The first time was to his mother in April 1940 and the second time was as a poet, in January 1951. His life was distinctly cleaved in two by an accident. Before th...

Jamaican Pebbles is a powerful collection of poems shaped by struggle, softened by grace, and polished by the unbreakable spirit of a woman rising. Each poem is a pebble — small in the hand, heavy in the heart — carrying stories of hurt, healing, identity, and the quiet courage it takes to keep going when life gets rough.Rooted in Jamaican truth and universal humanity, these poems walk through the shadows of emotional exhaustion, abandonment, grief, and the things we don't...

Mi Ser Evanesce fue escrito junto a café aromático, en silla cómoda, reflexionando en la vida. Estrofa diecinueve abre la puerta a lluvia. Tomando café se esconde la ternura, tosiendo se explica las lágrimas. Los dibujos tomaron pocas horas en hacer y ejecutar, la mano fránticamente haciendo la visión realidad.

I Am Jamaica is a collection of poems written in the rhythm of the Jamaican vernacular and speaks primarily to its culture and heritage. The pieces are humorous yet educational, and so Dr. Sue has coined the term edutainment to describe the pieces.