Brit Bennett’s book, The Vanishing Half, is an exploration of family relations, of the flawed notions of colourism and their insidious and long-lasting effects on the human psyche, and of two sisters’ determination to carve out…
Title: Everything I Never Told You Author: Celeste Ng Published: 2014 Genre: Fiction The book opens with “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” From then, the author sketches a portrait of Lydia’s family…
Title: She Would Be King Author: Wayétu Moore Published: 2018 Genre: Historical fiction & magic realism In She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore reimagines the beginnings of Liberia, the West-African country founded by freed African-Americans…
Title: Girl, Woman, Other Author: Bernadine Evaristo Published: 2019 Genre: Fiction For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn…
Title: It’s not about the burqa Author: edited by Marian Khan Published: 2019 Genre: Non-fiction This collection of essays written my Muslim women on their faith; their representation in mainstream media, or lack thereof; their feminism …
Title: Swing Time Author: Zadie Smith Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 2016 Genre: Fiction Zadie Smith’s musical tale is about relationships in general and friendships in particular. Swing Time, about two childhood friends whose lives take completely…
Title: Talk of the Town Author: Fred Khumalo Publisher: Kwela Books Published: 2019 Genre: Fiction In this collection of short stories, Khumalo tackles the ideas of South African identity and of belonging by routinely detailing the…
Title: Heads of the Colored People Author: Nafissa Thompson-Spires Publisher: Chatto & Windus (Penguin Random House imprint) Published: 2018 Genre: Fiction And what is a black network narrative but the story of one degree of…
Title: Educated Author: Tara Westover Publisher: Penguin Random House Published: 2018 Genre: Memoir In Educated, Tara Westover recounts her childhood about growing up as the youngest of seven children in a Mormon survivalist family. Not only…
Title: Lullaby Author: Leila Slimani Publisher: Faber & Faber Published: 2016 Genre: Fiction Leila Slimani’s psychological thriller about a family nanny that murders the two children she minds is an interesting exploration of human fragility and instability.…
Title: The Good Immigrant Author: edited by Nikesh Shukla Publisher: Unbound Published: 2016 Genre: Non-Fiction The blurb reads: ‘What’s it like to live in a country that doesn’t trust you and doesn’t want you unless you…
Title: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal Publisher: HarperCollins Published: 2017 Genre: Fiction Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows is, as the title states, just that. The stories told by a group of Punjabi…