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Multicultural Authors June-July 2024
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A Nearby Country Called Love
by Salar Abdoh
A young Iranian man finds himself living on the margins of society after supporting a woman who lit herself on fire in an act of defiance and discovering that his late brother was a prominent queer artist in Tehran's underground.
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The List : a Novel
by Yomi Adegoke
A celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, Ola Olajide is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on “The List,” an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this razor sharp exploration of the real-world impact of online life.
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The Future : a Novel
by Naomi Alderman
While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization.
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Holiday Country
by çInci Atrek
Spending the summer in Turkey with her family, Ada begins to imagine a different future for her mother after a mysterious man from her past returns and must come to terms with her own attraction to him.
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Confrontations : a Novel
by Simone Atangana Bekono
A mixed-race teenager in the Netherlands spends months at a juvenile detention center for a violent crime that she did not commit and must come to terms with the her anger, sorrow and guilt.
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Village Weavers : a Novel
by Myriam J. A. Chancy
In 1940s Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi, two girls with an unbreakable bond, are torn apart by a deathbed revelation, and over the decades, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship, until they are brought together one last time to reckon with and—perhaps—forgive the past.
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The Night Travelers : a Novel
by Armando Lucas Correa
Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
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You Dreamed of Empires
by Alvaro Enrigue
Bringing to life Tenochtitlan at its height and reimagines its destiny, the visionary author of Sudden Death takes us back to 1519 where conquistador Hernan Cortes meets emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages and two possible futures.
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The Great Divide : a Novel
by Cristina Henriquez
An epic novel about the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
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The Bullet Swallower : a Novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas.
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A Christmas To Remember
by Beverly Jenkins
Bernadine and Mal's upcoming wedding in Henry Adams, Kansas, hits a snag as Christmas approaches, in the 11th novel of the series following On the Corner of Hope and Main.
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So Late In the Day : Stories of Women and Men
by Claire Keegan
Collects three of the Booker Prize Finalist's exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, that each explore the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation and the looming threat of violence.
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River East, River West : a Novel
by Aube Rey Lescure
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.
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Allow Me To Introduce Myself
by Onyi Nwabineli
After growing up with her life being chronicled and monetized by her entrepreneurial step-mother, Anuri escapes as a young adult but vows to fight the cycle of abuse and save her younger sister from a similar fate.
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Twilight Territory : a Novel
by Andrew X. Pham
In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
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Bad Habit : a Novel
by Alana Portero
Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
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The Sense of Wonder : a Novel
by Matthew Salesses
From the author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a searing masterwork on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them.
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Habitations : a Novel
by Sheila Sundar
Still reeling from her sister's death, Vega Gopalan flees South India to attend graduate school in New York and must navigate academia, first love, a green card marriage, the isolation of immigrant suburbs and single motherhood.
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Cinema Love : a Novel
by Jiaming Tang
After emigrating to New York City's Chinatown, Old Second and Bao Mei reminisce about their secret past in a rural Chinese cinema that taught them to navigate forbidden love, societal pressures and an uncertain future.
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The Late Americans
by Brandon Taylor
During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends, as each prepares for an uncertain future, head to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
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Blackouts : a Novel
by Justin Torres
A young man tends to the dying soul of a person he knew only briefly and the pair trade stories as they wait for the end, in the new novel from the author of We the Animals.
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Your Presence Is Mandatory : a Novel
by Sasha Vasilyuk
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
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Stealing : a Novel
by Margaret Verble
In the 1950s, strong-willed and shrewd Kit Crockett, ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to a religious boarding school, she, along with the other Native students, is stripped of her heritage, force-fed Christian indoctrination and is sexually abused until she decides to fight back.
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The Premonition : a Novel
by Banana Yoshimoto
Moving in with her eccentric aunt due to a premonition that grows stronger day by day, 19-year-old Yayoi, feeling she has forgotten something important from her childhood, is drawn into a strange, chaotic world where she is consumed by inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from learning the truth.
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