Tag: cultural heritage fiction
Interview: Black Author Seeks His Voice in a Vast Whiteness
Interview: Greenland, David Santos Donaldson – Kipling Starling has three weeks to rewrite his novel about E.M. Forester and his lover, Mohammed Ed Adl into Mohammed’s point of view so he boards himself up in his basement vowing not to come out until he is finished.
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Interview: Icelandic Novel Touches Universal Female Themes
Interview: Karitas Untitled,, Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir, Amazon Crosisng – Icelandic Novel Touches Universal Female Themes
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Interview: Brad Kessler’s North Explores Sanctuary and Borders
North, Brad Kessler, Harry N. Abrams – In his fourth book, North, Brad Kessler tells a story of a boundary expanding encounter between a Somali refugee, a Vermont monk, and an Afghan War veteran that poses important questions about boundaries and belonging.
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Interview: Epic Debut Novel Traces Family Slave Trade Through Modern Day
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Harper Collins – Ailey Garfield is the descendant of Africans brought to America as slaves plus Native American and white ancestry.
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Review: The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor
The Other Man, Farhad J. Dadyburjor, Lake Union Publishing – Farhad J. Dadyburjor’s novel, “The Other Man,” details the struggles of Ved Mehra, a closet-gay man living in India, before India’s supreme court decriminalized same-sex relationships in 2018.
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2019 Willie Morris Awards Announced
2019 Willie Morris Awards Announced – Tiffany Quay Tyson Receives $10,000 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction for THE PAST IS NEVER
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Traumatized Syrian Refugees Must Find Each Other – and Themselves
The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri, Ballantine Books – Nuri and Afra and their young son live on a lovely hill overlooking Aleppo. Nuri and his cousin, Mustafa, tend bees in the fragrant fields of flowers nearby. Then war comes.
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Gothic Romance: Love, Murder, Ghoulish Haunt Black Woman
The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Sara Collins, Harper Collins – Frannie grew up a slave on a Jamaican plantation. Her master, Langton, chose her as his assistant in his experiments on cadavers.
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A Woman is No Man: Three Generations of Women React
A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum, Harper Collins – Three generations of women in a Palestinian family deal with a culture that considers girl babies a curse and boys a blessing, that teaches that women are inferior to men.
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Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There
Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, April 7, 2019
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