Under the Udala Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Udala Trees write by Chinelo Okparanta. This book was released on 2015. Under the Udala Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by her mother's stories of war and Nigeria's folktale traditions, Under the Udala Trees is Chinelo Okparanta's deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Happiness, Like Water write by Chinelo Okparanta. This book was released on 2013. Happiness, Like Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.
Harry Sylvester Bird
Harry Sylvester Bird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harry Sylvester Bird write by Chinelo Okparanta. This book was released on 2022-07-12. Harry Sylvester Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America. Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own. To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country. And his small town isn’t any better. He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school. He can’t wait until he’s old enough to leave. When he finally is, he moves straight to New York City, where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self. In the city, he meets and falls in love with Maryam, a young Nigerian woman. But when Maryam begins to pull away, Harry is forced to confront his identity as he never has before—if he can. Brilliant, funny, original, and unflinching, Harry Sylvester Bird is a satire that speaks to all the most pressing tensions and anxieties of our time—and of the history that has shaped us and might continue to do so.
Jam on the Vine
Jam on the Vine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jam on the Vine write by LaShonda Katrice Barnett. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Jam on the Vine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this “captivating saga” of the post-Reconstruction era, a black female journalist blazes her own trail—“unforgettable; gripping; an instant classic” (Elle). Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, discovers a lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother’s white employer. Living in the segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in the printed word until she earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson Collegiate in Austin. Finally fleeing the Jim Crow South to settle in Kansas City, Ivoe and Ona, her former teacher and present lover, start the first female-run African American newspaper, Jam On the Vine. In the throes of the Red Summer—the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the Midwest—Ivoe risks her freedom and her life to call attention to the atrocities of the American prison system. Inspired by the legacy of trailblazing black women like Ida B. Wells and Charlotta Bass, LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s Jam On the Vine is both an epic vision of the hardships that defined an era and “an ode to activism, writ[ten] with a scholar’s eye and a poet’s soul” (Tayari Jones, O The Oprah Magazine).
The Isle of Youth
The Isle of Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Isle of Youth write by Laura van den Berg. This book was released on 2013-11-05. The Isle of Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, the characters in these bewitching stories are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless, and they will do what it takes to survive. Each tale is spun with elegant urgency, and the reader grows attached to the marginalized young women in these stories—women grappling with the choices they've made and searching for the clues to unlock their inner worlds. This is the work of a fearless writer whose stories feel both magical and mystical, earning her the title of "sorceress" from her readers. Be prepared to fall under her spell. An NPR Best Book of 2013
