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10 best books like Ancestor Stones (Aminatta Forna): Everything Good Will Come, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Baking Cakes in Kigali, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Courting Mr. Lincoln, Dust, Kintu, Mémoires de porc-épic, He Drown She in the Sea, When Did You Last See Your Father?

Everything Good Will Come
AuthorSefi Atta
ISBN1844370569
Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school...
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
AuthorLola Shoneyin
ISBN0061946370
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships...
Baking Cakes in Kigali
AuthorGaile Parkin
ISBN0385343434
Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kigali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day...
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
AuthorJonathan Van Ness
ISBN0062906402
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.

The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.

Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing...
Courting Mr. Lincoln
AuthorLouis Bayard
ISBN1616208473
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a sparky, marriageable Mary Todd and Lincoln’s best friend, Joshua Speed.
When Mary Todd meets...
Dust
AuthorYvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN0307961206
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and...
Kintu
AuthorJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
ISBN9966159894
Uganda’s history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debut.

In 1750, Kintu Kidda unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In this ambitious tale of a clan and of a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants...
Mémoires de porc-épic
AuthorAlain Mabanckou
ISBN2020847469
Alain Mabanckou revisite en profondeur un certain nombre de lieux fondateurs de la littérature et de la culture africaines, avec amour, humour et dérision. Parodiant librement une légende populaire selon laquelle chaque être humain possède son double animal, il nous livre dans ce récit l'histoire...
He Drown She in the Sea
AuthorShani Mootoo
ISBN0802142605
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Guanagaspar around the time of the Second World War, and in modern-day Vancouver, He Drown She in the Sea, fulfills the promise of Shani Mootoo’s internationally acclaimed debut novel, Cereus Blooms at Night.At the centre of the story is Harry St. George,...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
AuthorJodi Taylor
'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?

They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't...
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