Eric Thomas’s life as a Black gay Christian. This charming and funny memoir-in-essays describes comedian and playwright R.
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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. All six stories in this collection deftly explore the Black experience in America, whether it’s the present or the future. If his son has the exact same upbringing and opportunities as his ACM students, will he still experience the systemic racism the protagonist experienced? The second story, “Virginia is Not Your Home,” written in the second person, is about a Black woman who longs to live anywhere but America. In the first story, “Control Negro” narrated by Lavar Burton, a Black professor conducts an experiment comparing his estranged son with the ACMs (American Caucasian Males) that populate his classroom.
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This perfectly written short story collection has a full cast audio. My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, read by Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, LeVar Burton, Ngozi Anyanwu, Tomiwa Edun Her narration is as dry and hilarious as her essays. Whether she’s talking about her Crohn's disease, her dating life, her difficulties with budgeting, or her knack for getting along with moms, Irby’s essays are both deeply revealing and relatable. Irby’s debut essay collection is uproariously funny. Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby, read by the author Despite the many years that have passed, June has never been able to forget about that rocket stranded in space, nor about the issues with her uncle's fuel cell. As an adult, June becomes an astronaut and engineer, working closely with her uncle's protégé James. Her aunt sends her to space training school, where June is thrust into classrooms with students far older than her. June thinks they're still alive and has discovered evidence to prove it, but no one listens to her. 12-year-old June's beloved uncle created a fuel cell for a rocket that ultimately failed, leaving the crew stranded and presumed dead, though her uncle died before learning of his failure. This inventive retelling of Jane Eyre is set in space. This is a complex story of multiple, sometimes conflicting perspectives and desires, made all the stronger by a chorus of top-notch narrators.In the Quick by Kate Hope Day, read by Rebecca Lowman The host of voices makes this novel an ideal candidate for a multiple-narrator production, with the standouts being the ever-soulful Graham and Onayemi, as the closest thing the novel has to a main character: Thula, a stalwart girl whose father disappears while visiting the capital city with a delegation to plead the village’s case. So they decide to fight back, engaging in a host of wily schemes and outright confrontations.
They’re fed up with the lying oil company whose wells have been poisoning their land and water for a generation, and also with the village leaders and government men who facilitate this depredation. The residents of Kosawa, a village in a fictional African nation, collectively tell this story. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue, performed by Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson, and Lisa Renee Pitts Chapters told from her perspective, narrated with claustrophobic vulnerability by Louise Brealey, alternate with the letters of an unknown psychopath, read with creepy, plummy portent by Kobna Holdbrick-Smith. As tremulous as any Gothic heroine, Mariana goes toe-to-toe with assorted scornful and seductive male authority figures while trying to get to the truth. There are assignations in graveyards and notorious parties and scads of classical references. The students-the eponymous maidens-cluster around a Byronic male classics professor, and our heroine, Mariana, worries that her beloved niece might also have come under his spell.
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This frankly preposterous tale of a widowed psychotherapist investigating a series of suspicious deaths among women students at Cambridge University is great, silly fun. Michaelides writes high-end thrillers set among the cultured elite and replete with women smothered by convention and domineering men. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, performed by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrick-Smith
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