Promises of Gold Humorous American LiteratureLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named one of NPR's Books We Love How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic lovebut what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all alongcheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant. In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Jos Olivarez explores every kind of loveself, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of
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A novel about divorce
he would be free to wallow in the raw
believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat
and surrender—a wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman’s at once ordinary and iconic life
a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames
Charming illustrations of the barnyard and its many animals transport readers to the heart of the action
and the redemptive power of storytelling
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Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful
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