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 – 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...
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...
In The Shadow Of 10,000 Hills by Jennifer Haupt– 384 pages Book Blurb: In 1968, Lillian Carlson left Atlanta, disillusioned and heartbroken, after the assassination of Martin Luther King. She found meaning in the hearts of orphaned African children and cobbled...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil – 384 pages Book Blurb: Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her...