In Editor's Choice this week, we share the adult debut of acclaimed YA author Nicola Yoon: One of Our Kind, a gripping and timely psychological horror story set in a Black utopian suburb.
We also bring you an exclusive interview with Carvell Wallace, who talks to BookBrowse about his debut memoir-in-essays Another Word for Love, memory, queerness, faith, and his podcast on Fred Rogers.
Plus, discover more titles in our Black Authors category, learn about filtered searches you can use to find the perfect book, and check out our latest book club discussions! | | With best wishes,
The BookBrowse Team
| |  |  | One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
When Jasmyn Williams and her husband King move with their young son Kamau from an apartment in the diverse neighborhood of Mid City Los Angeles to Liberty, an exclusive suburb outside the city, they feel like they've made it. Not just because they're following in the footsteps of countless other upwardly mobile families who have traded in their bus passes and bustling city parks for sprawling lawns and cul-de-sacs. For these young Black parents, the opportunity to live in a designed suburb, a modern-day Black utopia, where everyone from the mayor to the police chief to the high school principal is Black, represents a kind of safety and security they never knew when they were growing up in Compton.
The chance to raise their son (and the new baby they're expecting in a few months) surrounded by Black role models, in a place where being Black is celebrated unconditionally, is especially important to King, whose brother was killed by police years earlier.
But almost as soon as the Williamses move in, Jasmyn detects something a bit...off about Liberty. ... continued | | This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon, We Refuse by Kellie Carter Jackson, and Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace.
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| | | |  | An Interview with Carvell Wallace
Carvell Wallace's debut memoir, Another Word for Love, explores how spirituality and embracing his queer identity helped him heal from childhood trauma. The journalist and podcaster is known for co-writing basketball player Andre Iguodala's 2019 memoir The Sixth Man and for his Peabody Award–nominated podcast series Finding Fred (2019). He lives in Oakland, California and lectures in the Narrative Department at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Wallace spoke with BookBrowse's Rebecca Foster about accessing the past and pondering the concept of goodness.
RF: When you went back to reinhabit your childhood perspective, were there special rituals you had for dredging up memories? Were photographs and heirlooms helpful to you?
CW: Yes, photographs were extremely helpful, so much so that I wrote about photographs twice in the book. Also, very early in the process I made the decision to buy three Hot Wheels cars and place them on an altar near my desk. The hope was that these would be like talismans that somehow helped me capture the sense memories of those earlier times. ... continued | | One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon and Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace, appearing in our Juneteenth e-zine above, are just two books in our Black Authors category, which currently showcases 250+ recommended works by Black writers, with recently featured titles from Ayana Mathis, Percival Everett, Tia Williams, and others. | | Discover BookBrowse Filtered Searches
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