James Hannaham
2) God says no
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Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen years old, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a waffle house bathroom and lets something happen. God says no is his testimony--the story of a young Black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite...
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Darlene es una mujer rota. Después de la muerte violenta de su marido su vida ha quedado destrozada. Hasta que un día se le presenta una vía de escape en forma de autobús, promesa de futuro y trabajo. En ese momento, empieza un largo recorrido hasta la Delicious Foods, una empresa especializada en reclutar a desdichados y marginados. Pero la realidad a la cual se tendrá que enfrentar Darlene no será la que ella espera. Con esta novela pluripremiada,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - before it gentrified....
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Soft Skull Press
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2021.
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English
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"From visual artist and award-winning writer of Delicious Foods, a book of prose and images that uses the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature of consciousness. Early in 2017, on a plane trip from Cape Verde to Lisbon, James Hannaham started reading Pessoa & Co., Richard Zenith's English translation...