Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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1. Americanah

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Author:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--

2. Give my love to the savages: stories

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Author:
Stuck, Chris
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Description:
Nine stories highlight the complexities of being Black in modern America, including a Black son who visits his white father during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and a Black Republican whose skin disease is turning him white.

3. The hate u give

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Author:
Thomas, Angie
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...

4. Internment

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Author:
Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer)
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Description:
A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.

5. The nickel boys: a novel

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Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

6. The vanishing half

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Author:
Bennett, Brit
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...