Kamala Harris’s New Memoir—Plus The Best BIPOC Books Out This Week

After the 2021 National Book Award-winning book of Hell, Mott’s latest is very tied to his life, but very different. It follows two black writers trying to make it in a world torn apart by gun violence. Their story begins to fuse as people drink from award trophies, guns float in the air, sightings of sea monsters, and even time travel. There are many humor, sadness and dreamlike experiences in this world.

This sounds like a trip. What I’m down. Mehta weaves together the dream and f story, telling the story of Myung and Laleh, who maintain the Babel whale. They spend their days in a space chamber spinning their own folk tales, praying to the mysterious “great Wisna.” But Myung wants more. She leaves the whales for a new world that changed the island and ancient maps. The adventures that follow her change her, but that’s not without the tragedy. Collective memories, surreal landscapes, and even mad festivals gather together to create something that describes what I saw as something that feels like a story of ancient creation.

Here, award-winning Afro-Brazilian author Eliana Alvezcruz brings us the story of a black mother and daughter (eunice and Mabel) who work as live-in maids in a wealthy family in a Brazilian city. With slavery still fresh in Brazilian consciousness, Mabel begins to lighten the invisibility she and her mother have completed as she and her mother glide in unnoticed service to the rich family she and her mother live together. Not only that, Mabel is tired of the scope of their lives, but Eunice is trapped in them for everyone who depends on her. After that, a little boy dies, and suddenly, Eunice may no longer be able to quietly accept the differences in class she has been neglecting for so long.