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Chelsea T Hicks recommends
Old School Indian (2025)
Aaron John Curtis
"Curtis' debut novel holds the power to open eyes to who Indigenous people truly are. Brave, funny and irreverent, Old School Indian reveals what separates us from each other-but also from ourselves. As Abe endures the painful internalized racism that comes from filtering who he is through what the world says about him, his journey indicts all the relationships that ask us to filter who we are through narratives of oppression. And at its heart, this is a story about what it means to practice care."
When the Harvest Comes (2025)
Denne Michele Norris
"It's not often I read a book that feels like escapism but reckons with the truest of difficult realities. Romantic, wise and healing, When the Harvest Comes is a rare story. Denne Michele Norris bridges the claimed moralities of Christian love with a truly compassionate, transformational love, showing us what it means to speak those things that are not as though they are. A meditation on forgiveness, true love and destiny that enchants with every line."
The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024)
Jennifer Croft
"An exquisite pleasure. Croft unearths the interconnection between land and communities, revealing the collaborative networks of forests as clearly and incisively as she does that of the literary world. In this exquisite pleasure of a novel, in which I luxuriated on every page, Croft mines the vicissitudes of the translation world to reveal quite plainly that everything is connected, and translators deserve more."
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