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(0)Leila Mottley
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Plata
Pub. Date
[2023].
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Español
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"Kiara Johnson no sabe lo que es tener la vida de una chica de diecisiete años normal. Con su madre en un hogar de transición tras salir de la cárcel y un hermano mayor que solo dedica su tiempo y su dinero a un estudio de grabación, tiene que valerse por sí misma; también intenta ayudar a Trevor, un crío de nueve años a cuya madre le da por desaparecer varios días seguidos cuando le viene en gana. Cuando el arrendador de su bloque de pisos...
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. The collection is sharp...