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Diane's 2020 book list
Global Black Voices
Read-Alikes for Girl, Woman, Other
The Library Director’s 2020 Book List Continued
Global Black Voices
Read-Alikes for Girl, Woman, Other
The Library Director’s 2020 Book List Continued
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"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...
2) Reuni�on
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 1074
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"�Qu�e significa ser mujer y ser negra hoy en Inglaterra pese a tener una carrera de �exito? Una mujer repasa su vida y toma una decisi�on. ... Mientras indaga sobre c�omo en lo m�as profundo de una sociedad supuestamente abierta y multirracial sigue presente el fantasma del colonialismo, Reuni�on nos cuenta la historia de una mujer que se enfrenta a una decisi�on trascendental cuando una amenaza a su existencia la lleva a replante�arsela...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dominoes opens in London, twenty-nine days before the wedding of a young couple. Layla is a mixed-race woman--with a Black, Jamaican mother, and a white father she's never met--and Andy is a white man of Scottish descent. When they first meet at a party, they can't believe how instant their chemistry is, and how quickly their relationship unfolds. But the commonalities between the two outweigh their differences; funnily enough, they even share a...
4) Dottie
Author
Language
English
Description
"A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past. Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain. At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother...
5) Assembly
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Marcias's husband, Lloydie, expresses his tender love for his wife each morning by preparing a cup of tea and setting it by her bedside. This routine was part of the wonderful, secure life they had built, complete with a brilliant and handsome sixteen-year-old son, Ryan. Then the unimaginable happens, and in a single moment Marcia is stripped clean of everything she had presumed was her for keeps. Ryan, not the kind of boy to find himself on the...
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