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Author
Series
Changers volume 4
Publisher
Black Sheep/Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When we left Kim Cruz in Changers Book Three, she'd just come out to her best friend. In Changers Book Four: Forever, Kim discovers that this is only one small part of understanding who she is and where she belongs. Soon enough, she changes again, into the body and social status of her dreams. What she does with her newfound power will come to haunt her. In this final installment of the provocative Changers series, our hero learns what it means to...
Author
Publisher
Pink Narcissus Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead. After the narrator, who is never named is given a warning by her grandmother's dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Her brother is called Brother, her girlfriend is called Girlfriend, cementing the loss of names, language...
508) Vee in between
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Vee's favorite story is the day she met her parents. When Vee was still a baby, they flew to China to adopt her and bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class, Vee longs for a closer connection with her birth culture. At the same time, people in her community make Vee feel out of place in her own family. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it's hard when she feels like she has to choose. With help from another...
Author
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
"Deux ans avant qu'il ne quitte la maison, mon père dit à ma mère que j'étais très laide." Giovanna, fi lle unique d'un couple de professeurs, vit une enfance heureuse dans les hauteurs de Naples. L'année de ses douze ans, elle surprend une conversation dans laquelle son père la compare à Vittoria, une tante à la réputation maléfi que. Bouleversée par ce rapprochement aussi dévalorisant qu'inattendu, Giovanna va chercher à en savoir...
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers is a thoughtfully curated collection of short stories at the intersection of racial and queer identity. Comprising both the renowned and emerging voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color authors, across multiple countries, and diverse in style, perspective, and theme, In Our Words reflects the complexity and diversity of human experience.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What...
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