One of the year's most anticipated by Marie Claire, Essence, Debutiful, & Goodreads

A brilliant debut by a British-Nigerian author—a heartfelt family drama that will delight book club readers and fans of books like The Girl with the Louding Voice and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.

"Jendella Benson has drawn such a compelling world. The book and the characters stayed with me long

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Based on the author's own life, this eye-opening story of an African migrant is so simply told and resonant it has the power of parable-for readers of The Lost Children's Archive and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Ibrahima is still a young boy when his father dies, but as the eldest son, he must leave their home village in the Guinean countryside in search of work to support his family. Eventually, he apprentices to a trucker in a neighboring country,...

With its multiple first-person perspectives in the form of letters and journal entries, "Three Women" portrays the inner workings of a modern African family as they face common relationships, love, family and social problems. The first part, which is set in modern times is narrated through Oyinkan's recollections. It opens with the story of Oyinkan's troubled marriage to Kole as they rush their son Moyo to the hospital after Kole accidentally injures...

"For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike...

In Terra Elan McVoy's second captivating middle grade novel, twelve-year-old Fiona Coppleton is living every girl's worst nightmare: her diary was made public and her best friend is partly to blame. Fiona and Cassie are best friends for life. No one else can make Fiona laugh like Cassie can, and that meant everything when Fiona's parents were divorcing. They love each other in spite of their (many) differences, and even though Cassie cares a little...

"Like Jenny Lawson and Caitlin Moran, Emmy-nominated actress and writer Betty Gilpin delivers a lightning-strike dispatch of hilarious, intimate, and luminous essays on how to navigate this weird and wondrous life. Betty Gilpin has a brain full of women. There's Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others--some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and some, oh God, and some...slowly vomiting up a crow without breaking...

"In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has collected original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, and bullied' for speaking out....

"More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back--along with sixteen captivating new voices--sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women's lives today."--Jacket flap.

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