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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

Fast, thrilling, and sharp, S. A. Cosby roars in this powerful, crime thriller

Daphne Palasi Andreades’

Mia P. Manansala prepares an interesting mix of characters, secrets, and small-town gossip in the first of her three-part cozy murder mystery series. In

Nita Prose’s debut novel

Today we remember that Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that black people “[would] not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” but instead we learn that black men reap a harvest of endemic poverty and system racism in the South decades after MLK’s assassination. No author gives us a more visceral rendering of this testimony of injustice to black men than Jesmyn Ward in her emotional, gut-punching memoir,