Girl Trouble

Author	Dinaw Mengestu
ISBN	1594487707

A heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to...

Author	Chester Himes
ISBN	1560250216

I enjoyed this huge compilation of short works by Chester Himes but I didn't love it. The collection can roughly be divided in thirds, with the first-third being my favorite. The first third showcases some great snapshots of Black American life during World War II, descriptive and evocative of early...

Author	Anna Kavan
ISBN	0720611237

This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration in a Swiss clinic. The sense of paranoia, of persecution by a foe or force that is never given a name, evokes The Trial by Kafka, a writer with...

Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell

“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...

Author	D.L. Hughley
ISBN	0062698567

3 hours, 45 minutes

A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House.

"White people are always giving out ‘helpful’...