The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton – 368 pages ARC from 37ink and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of...
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The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson – 336 pages Book Blurb: It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to...
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge - 336 pages ARC from Algonquin Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing...
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...
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers - 352 pages ARC from Park Row Books and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A,...
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson - 288 pages ARC from Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes...
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson by – 196 pages Book Blurb: Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these...
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...
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Tailia Hibbert – Audio Book Blurb: Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the...
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...