Primarily following the middle-age crisis of Rebecca — a woman who feels something is deeply wrong with her universe — the book explores whether her ennui is caused by the banality of modern life, a mysterious family tragedy or something that’s gone terribly wrong with her physicist husband’s “causality violation” experiment.
Jemison This novel treads a fine line between modern literature and science fiction, perfectly adapting the evocative prose and mystery of one and the excitement and uncertainty of the other. — Jonathan Williams (TED Talk with Paula Stone Williams: The story of a parent’s transition and a son’s redemption), Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Many people might already own Tar Beach but she wrote & illustrated SO many books. published 1984, avg rating 4.07 — published 2000, avg rating 3.72 — The voice of the narrator is clear as a bell and persuasive to the hilt. Rarely is a debut collection lauded as an instant classic and justifiably so.
I felt she was in my (flat) shoes!
99,022 ratings — Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), 62 great books by Black authors, recommended by TED speakers, 3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do, 3 ways business can fight sex trafficking, What it’s like to be the child of immigrants, What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other, TED Talk: A burial practice that nourishes the planet, The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths. published 1995, avg rating 3.87 — published 2019, avg rating 3.95 — 158,120 ratings — I think that’s telling and is, in its own way, a form of injustice and privilege. You could order them from Blue Cypress Books or Octavia Books in New Orleans–she’s a local author there and they keep them stocked. published 2013, avg rating 3.68 —
10,364 ratings — I went to college with the author, Ti, and would love to see her get a wave of books sold, plus the reviews are great! I read that to my son on many nights when he was younger. 4,027 ratings — 28,773 ratings — Today, we wanted to feature great children’s books written by Black authors. It showed me just how white our reading world is. Time on a deserted island would allow me to dig in and likely see a whole new layer I didn’t recognize before.
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