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NEXT READS - Authors of Color

An RCPL suggested reading list by women of color about characters of color. Previous books enjoyed are: The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl (Issa Rae), The Mothers (Brit Bennett), Hunger (Roxanne Gay), and the House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros).

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  • PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when…
    Book, 2017New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017. — FICTION Lee M.
  • An immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession.
    Book, 2016New York : Random House, [2016] — FIC MBUE
  • An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from…
    Book, 2017New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. — FICTION Nayeri D.
  • Leaving Time In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this…
    Book, 2017New York : Penguin Press, 2017. — F-NG, C
  • Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by…
    Book, 2017New York : Scribner, 2017. — FICTION Ward J.