Maame by Jessica George – 320 pages ARC from St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: 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...
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The Storyteller of Casablanca by Fiona Valpy
The Storyteller of Casablanca by Fiona Valpy – 316 pages Finished copy from Lake Union Amazon Publishing for an honest review Book Blurb: The Storyteller of Casablanca by Fiona Valpy: Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old...
Yinka, Where’s Your Husband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Yinka, Where is Your Huzband by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn – 384 pages ARC provided from Pamela Dorman Books and Netgalley for an honest review.Book Blurb: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband brings us Yinka's Nigerian aunties that frequently pray for her delivery from...
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie – 288 pages ARC from Algonquin Books and Netgally for an honest review Book Blurb: Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time...
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia - 224 pages ARC from Flatiron for an honest review Book Blurb: In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent...
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - Audio Book Blurb: Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high...
Ties that Tether by Jane Igharo
Ties that Tether by Jane Igharo – 336 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: At twelve years old, Azere promised her dying father she would marry a Nigerian man and preserve her culture even after emigrating to Canada. Her mother has...
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi – 256 pages ARC from Riverhead Books and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at...
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré–384 pages ARC from Edelweiss and Dutton in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a...
If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais – 432 pages ARC courtesy of G.P. Putnam's Sons in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy...