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Black people are obsessed with their children and Ta-Nehisi Coate’s

Set during a slave rebellion in 1830s New Orleans, Valerie Martin’s

Roxane Gay’s

Morgan Parker’s reissued poetry collection

Zikora is like every other woman that has felt the pangs of a man that has abandoned her. However, this agony is amplified once she finds out she is carrying his child. Adichie is able to capture the ambivalence and pain we experience when we put so much of ourselves into others that don't give us back what we pour into them. Zikora's lover leaves and abandons her when she needs him most. However, Zikora will not be the first nor the last woman that must continue forward with her life and be the best mother she can be. Adichie crafts a fine short story here with a great big message: she will survive even in the midst of her troubles.

Plantations should not evoke revelry for anybody. Plantations housed the torment of the U.S.’s peculiar institution of slavery and manufactured the selling and breeding of human property. Across southern states, we remember the ways our Black ancestors come to terms with being Black in America throughout history and present-day. However, LaTanya McQueen writes a debut novel that shakes up those dark, Southern histories in