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Powerful stories of parallel generations in Ghana and the United States. A whole people's divided history encapsulated, with compelling storytelling. Each story contains pain and heartbreak and yet also a seed of hope.
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself.…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
I am shocked this book hasn't had more buzz, wasn't up for a Pulitzer. Reading this book feels like watching a documentary-- you get that "how did I not hear more about this when it was happening?" sort of feeling. For someone who has worked in community organizing, the struggles the author describes are so relatable, and for someone who hasn't, the book draws out, step-by-step, how impossible hurdles can be overcome. Soni reveals how climate change, corporate power, and immigration are all intertwined, and how people power and nourishing food (this book includes recipes!) can overcome these intersecting injustices.
"An eye-opening look at the world of global itinerant workers . . . The Great Escape is a must-read." -The New York Times Book Review The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor-told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship. In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched…
