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Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

6 best books like Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country (Gillian Slovo): Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, Every Last One

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN1566894956
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
AuthorOcean Vuong
ISBN0525562028
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0895941228
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
AuthorElif Shafak
ISBN0241293863
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were...
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
AuthorCynthia Carr
ISBN1596915331
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity...
Every Last One
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN1400065747
The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Anna Quindlen

In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times" bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential...
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