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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening...
4) It's Holi!
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Getting ready for Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, young Nikhil is nervous about the festivities until his family comes up with a silly solution for him to celebrate the messy colors of spring with everyone.
Author
Publisher
Enclave Publishing, an imprint of Oasis Family Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a strange part of the forest, the divide between worlds grows thin. After the accident, Meg would do anything to wake her best friend from his deadly coma. At least, that’s what she whispered into the woodland shadows. She never imagined her wish would trap her in a gray other-earth, void of any color. Meg's vibrant humanity is a priceless artifact in the gray kingdom, coveted by the royal court. All she wants to do is find a way back home. Until...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead. After the narrator, who is never named is given a warning by her grandmother's dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Her brother is called Brother, her girlfriend is called Girlfriend, cementing the loss of names, language...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Ishmael's monochromatic farm life with his widowed mother is transformed when he begins to see color and is sent to the Hall of Hue, where he starts an apprenticeship with Luc, learning to create a new, colorful world.
Ever since his brother Luc's disappearance and his father's tragic death, Ishmael has lived a monotonous existence helping his mother on their meager farm where everything is colorless. Until one morning a ray of light...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Celeste Morton has eagerly awaited her passage to adulthood. Like every girl, she was born with a set of childhood markings-the freckles, moles, and birthmarks on her body that foretell her future and that of those around her-and with puberty will come a new set of predictions that will solidify her fate. The possibilities are tantalizing enough to outweigh the worry that the future she dreams of won't be the one she's fated to have and the fear of...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Florida kitsch swirls together with magical realism in this glittering debut novel about a young Black and Indigenous woman who learns to change the color of her skin. Gabrielle has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Tallulah, one marked by intimacy and resilience in the face of a volatile patriarch. Everything in their home has been bleached a cold white -- from the cupboards filled with sheets and crockery to the food and spices...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" It's New Year's Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white--a new way to "solve the American race problem." Max leaps at the opportunity, and after a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, he becomes...
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