The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
In an interview, Diane Wilson stated that, “At its heart, this novel is a tribute and a prayer and a gesture of gratitude to the seeds that have sustained indigenous communities...
Fiction, Nonfiction, and Other Book Reviews
In an interview, Diane Wilson stated that, “At its heart, this novel is a tribute and a prayer and a gesture of gratitude to the seeds that have sustained indigenous communities...
At the end of my fourth-grade year, in 1956 when I was ten, my father borrowed money from my grandfather to purchase the former Homelawn Hotel and convert it to a...
Etaf Rum’s powerful debut novel, A Woman Is No Man reveals the lives of three generations of Palestinian-American women told in primarily two time periods (1990 and present day). Through these...
The crime at the heart of this novel occurs in 1826 in London: Frannie Langton is accused of the brutal double murder of her employers George Benham, who is a famous...
A Beautifully Written Tribute to Those Who Fought for Social Justice I loved this historical fiction novel as much as The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash. And that’s enormous praise! Both...
Before I began attending The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System’s Social Justice Book Clubs and Learning Circles devoted to teaching and discussing Black History, I had never heard of Octavia E. Butler....
I was a little nervous when I read that one of the most important voices in America today, Ta-Nehisi Coates, had written a novel. I cherished his nonfiction starting with We...
In the Afterword and Acknowledgments to The Night Watchman, Ms. Erdich states that “if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits...
In 2018, Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Wonder, among other novels, began The Pull of the Stars inspired by the one-hundred-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic which killed millions...
Years ago, a much-loved Uncle asked if he could come and visit. I was thrilled. He was known for his detailed storytelling and sure enough, after dinner, he settled into a...