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- Review of I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Brown details growing up female, Christian, and black within mainly with a name her parents gave her to intentionally create assumptions that it was the name of a white man
- Review of 142 Ostriches by April Davila
like readers will be mentally way ahead of her on this, I didn’t mind seeing where things were going—mainly
- My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads
complex flavors, the frequently time-consuming and sometimes meditative preparations required, and her many Crying in H Mart is beautiful, painful, and evocative. 02 The Space Between Worlds by Micah Johnson In She must cobble together the various bits of knowledge and savviness she's gained through tracing the steps of her many other selves if she's going to stand any chance of outsmarting the canny and intelligent Adam Bosch--a man who will otherwise almost certainly be the source of her undoing. 03 Cloud Cuckoo
- Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares the story of his own many, varied, and enormous life challenges He dips his toe into explaining a cycle of learned helplessness and notes how many people from his hometown (s) (and other people as well) may embrace and rely on cynicism and hopelessness.
- Review of The Painter by Peter Heller
I was hooked by The Painter's main protagonist Jim and his point of view. He has a painful history he's trying to accept and get past, but sometimes darkness seeps into his thoughts
