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Anthony Grooms Author Of The Vain Conversation

From Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Anthony Grooms Why Anthony loves this book

I loved the lyrical, lush language and deep characterization in this well-crafted novel and was wholly immersed into the culture and ways of the early colonial period. The novel is very well researched and thoughtful as it ruminates on sexuality and religion.

By Garrard Conley ,

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1 author picked All the World Beside as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community in Puritan New England. One disciple, Dr Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating it transcends language.

As the bond between the two men grows more and more passionate, their wives and children must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies and judgments that threatens to destroy them in this world and the next.

Set during the turbulent historical upheavals that shaped America, All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Temple Folk

Anthony Grooms Author Of The Vain Conversation

From Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Anthony Grooms Why Anthony loves this book

The stories invited me to look at the lives of black American Muslim women, a group I knew little about. The writing is very strong and the characterizations familiar, even though the situations are not commonly known.

By Aaliyah Bilal ,

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1 author picked Temple Folk as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.

In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born.

In “Due North,” an obedient…


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