I enjoyed Kuang’s satirical takedown of the world of publishing, young authors, cultural appropriation, pressures of creativity, commercialization of art, cancel culture, and the power of social media. — Mary, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, WA I would highly recommend this book! R. F. Kuang absolutely knocks it out of the park on Yellowface. With biting critique …
In true Egan narrative, he navigates through the brutal history of the Ku Klux Klan and their subterfuge into homes and the United States government and the woman who dismantled them. Egan has a way of pulling you into a story only for you to come out of it realizing that history can be more …
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity is a memoir in essays about identity, hierarchy, and the illusion of being right. It is a book about a hard fall from a high horse, the trouble with attempting to hear yourself in an echo chamber, and the pursuit of honesty over agreement. It is a book intended to …
In her book, Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning, poet, critic and essayist Cathy Park Hong wrote: “For as long as I could remember, I have struggled to prove myself into existence.” For me, this line sets the tone for one of the most thoughtful and important books I’ve read in years. I had to …
From Boise Weekly/ idahopress.com by Sydney Kidd Salvador “Sal” Alamilla is no stranger to the ugly face of racism. Born in Michoacan, Mexico, he grew up in the United States, where he said he has faced both explicit and implicit racial bias. As a business owner, he usually shies away from taking a stand on …
While still a teenager, abolitionist Harriet Tubman received a head injury that left her with pain, dizziness, and visions. Coates reimagines her visions as something more. This tale of Hiram Walker, and enslaved half-white, half-black child of a slave and a plantation owner in the Antebellum South, weaves subtle magical realism into life as he …
From Third Place Books on Instagram: Everything seems trite so I’ll just say: here are a few titles we are not sold out of. Anything we are sold out of but can get for you, we will order. The least that we can do to help the situation is to educate ourselves.
