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• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit,

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  The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy

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  In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Island

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  Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maame

  George, Jessica, 1994-

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  It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• August: Osage County

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  The darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life and Food in the Caribbean

  Mackie, Cristine

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  The West Indian kitchen today, five hundred years after Columbus, is a wonderful blend of flavors and cooking styles. The islands are blessed with some of the richest soils in the world, and the different peoples who have settled there…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Dirt

  A Novel

  Wilkerson, Charmaine

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  The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake.

• Philomena

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  In 1952, a young Philomena was sent the convent of Roscrea in Ireland, after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years searching for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queenie

  a Novel

  Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-

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  Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ask Again, Yes

  a Novel

  Keane, Mary Beth,

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  Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren't close friends on the job, but end up living next door to each other outside the city. What goes on behind closed doors in both…Read moreRead more of this annotation