BOOK OF THE WEEK
- 13 Jan - 19 Jan, 2024
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge is the story of one young Black woman's quest for autonomy. Libertie Sampsona comes of age in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, where her mother plans for them to one day practice medicine side by side. But Libertie has her own dreams for the future, which lead to her marrying a man from Haiti as she searches for a place where she can be fully and freely herself.
On Jan. 20, Amanda Gorman became the youngest poet to ever read their work at a presidential inauguration. Now, her stirring and hopeful poem The Hill We Climb is being released with a new foreword from none other than Oprah Winfrey.
A woman in search of details about her family's history takes in the daughter of her neighbour after the woman is detained by ICE in Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt. However, Carmen's decision to care for Jeanette only makes her complicated life more complex, which leads her to visit her grandmother in Cuba as she searches for the truth about her family's story.
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