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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.…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
This book blends personal history with national, and even international history. The ability to write at multiple scales, blending in poetry and imagery, displaying incredible vulnerability, is just so impressive. Strasser interrogates so many scales and versions of violence, challenging us to think about the many, many ripple effects of the harm entailed in building, and ultimately exploding, a nuclear bomb.
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them were author Emily Strasser's grandfather George, a chemist. All employees - from scientists to secretaries, from military personnel to construction workers - were restricted by the tightest security. They were provided only the minimum information necessary to perform their jobs. It wasn't until three years later that the citizens of Oak Ridge, and the rest of the world,…
