A Moonless, Starless Sky - Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
$18.58 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a ...Show more
Augustown by Kei Miller
$18.54 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD 'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMES One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. N ...Show more
Because When God Is Too Busy - Haiti, Me, and the WORLD by Gina Athena Ulysse
$7.37 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
Gina Athena Ulysse's Because When God Is Too Busy: Haïti, me & THE WORLD is a lyrically vivid meditative journey that is unapologetic in its determination to name, embrace and reclaim a revolutionary Blackness that has been historically stigmatized and denied. Crafting experiments with "ethnographic ...Show more
Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry
$55.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
"Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered." --The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of 2017 (So Far) ...Show more
For Want of Water - And Other Poems by Sasha Pimentel
$29.99 NZD
Category: Open Book Award | Series: National Poetry Ser.
Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award-winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, C ...Show more
Lessons on Expulsion - Poems by Erika L. Sánchez
$11.43 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetryThe first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning.Of course I put my underwear on backwards, of course the ...Show more
My Soul Looks Back - A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris
$37.78 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York City. In the Tec ...Show more
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
$50.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Seale ...Show more
Some Say the Lark by Jennifer Chang
$11.39 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
"Some Say the Lark is a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination--the familiar world rendered strange." --Natasha Trethewey Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. Wi ...Show more
The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas
$42.99 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize Included in The Rumpus's "What to Read When You've Made it More Than Halfway Through 2017"Selected as one of Rigoberto Gonzalez's Favorite Books of 2017/Critics Pick, LA Times Jacket CopyOne o ...Show more
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