Books like The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
12 books with a reading profile close to The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Call Us What We Carry
Also inward-looking · inspirational, literary
In this collection, Amanda Gorman documents the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and American history.
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2
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking · history, literary
Set in London during and immediately after the Second World War, the narrative moves backward in time from 1947 to 1941.
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3
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
history, literary
Wandering Stars traces a lineage of a Cheyenne family from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the forced assimilation at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present day.
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Upstream: Selected Essays
by Mary Oliver
Also inward-looking · inspirational, literary
In this collection, Mary Oliver documents her observations of the natural world, specifically focusing on the flora and fauna of Provincetown and the Massachusetts coast.
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5
Of Women and Salt
Also inward-looking · history, literary
Spanning from nineteenth-century Cuban cigar factories to a modern-day detention center in Texas, the narrative follows five generations of women linked by blood and migration.
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
history, literary
Set against the declining years of the American Gold Rush, the novel follows Lucy and Sam, two orphaned siblings of Chinese descent, as they carry their father’s decomposing body across a harsh western landscape.
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
history, literary
In a rural village in war-torn Chechnya, Akhmed rescues an eight-year-old girl named Havaa after her father is abducted by Russian soldiers.
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff
history, literary
Cast out from the royal court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, seventeen-year-old Marie of France arrives at a destitute English abbey to serve as its new prioress.
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When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
Also inward-looking · history, literary
The narrative follows an unnamed Japanese American family—a mother, daughter, and son—living in Berkeley, California, in 1942.
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Memphis
Also inward-looking · history, literary
Spanning three generations of a Black family in Memphis, Tennessee, this novel centers on the women of one family, who must handle poverty, domestic violence and racism while keeping alive a sense of faith and creativit…
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In the Time of the Butterflies
history, literary
In 1960, three of the four Mirabal sisters were beaten to death on a road in the Dominican Republic because they had opposed the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
history, literary
Father Jean Marie Latour, a French cleric, travels to the newly acquired New Mexico Territory in 1851 to serve as Apostolic Vicar.
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