Life and Other Love SongsA father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty seventh birthday. At home, his wife Deborah and daughter Trinity prepare a

Miles Morales is just your average teenager

we become empowered to use it

" "I didn't know Black people liked Star Wars

Sidik Fofana's electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths

her husband's freedom

and dismantling racism and injustice

Mystal explains why in his first book

But with time

the blue-black of dreams washes over sandy shores

the twenty-five marches in this book show us that even when a fight seems impossible

it shall be broken

she doesn't know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out