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Hafizah Augustus Geter is a writer, poet, and literary agent. πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Writer: THE BLACK PERIOD, @randomhouse | UN-AMERICAN, @weslpress | Abolitionist-in-training | Literary Agent at @JanklowNesbit

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Book Cover for: The Overstory, Richard Powers

The Overstory

Richard Powers
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Thank you to the novels that leveled me: @smathewss's All this Could Be Different, Richard Powers's The Overstory, @bwhobson's The Removed, and Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom https://t.co/XxSL7xz7H7

Paperback, 2019

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Once, Meghan O'Rourke

Once

Meghan O'Rourke
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"...Hafizah Augustus Geter has crafted a book of extraordinary ambition, at once bracing, beautiful, and necessaryβ€”I couldn't put it down." -Meghan O'Rourke (@meghanor), THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM https://t.co/VSkaBEHiQb

Paperback, 2013

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber
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Love me some audiobooks, and this year, I particularly enjoyed Tyler Stovall's White Freedom, Angela Davis: An Autobiography, The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & @davidwengrow, Four Thousand Weeks by @oliverburkeman, and Toni Morrison's Jazz and Song of Solomon https://t.co/w7vAsNNOme

Paperback, 2023

$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Transit, Rachel Cusk

Transit

Rachel Cusk
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2022 was the year I returned to the novel. I loved Rachel Cusk's Transit, Ted Chiang's Exhalation, Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible, @jessaminechan's The School for Good Mothers, William Brewer's The Red Arrow & @asgharthegrouch's When We Were Sisters. https://t.co/PiCwiXsvwm

Paperback, 2017

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems, Dionne Brand

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

Dionne Brand
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Poetry sustains me and I truly loved @mafiasafia's Girls That Never Die, @cawkward_rich's Dispatch, and Dionne Brand's Nomenclature--which is an astonishing work of art. https://t.co/SlVSAfPO9j

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, Lynn Melnick

I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Lynn Melnick
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On 10/5 I'll be joining @LynnMelnick at @greenlightbklyn to celebrate the release of her memoir "I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton": https://t.co/lh5aXdzti4

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Book Cover for: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, Meghan O'Rourke

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke
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"...Hafizah Augustus Geter has crafted a book of extraordinary ambition, at once bracing, beautiful, and necessaryβ€”I couldn't put it down." -Meghan O'Rourke (@meghanor), THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM https://t.co/VSkaBEHiQb

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Red Arrow, William Brewer

The Red Arrow

William Brewer
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2022 was the year I returned to the novel. I loved Rachel Cusk's Transit, Ted Chiang's Exhalation, Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible, @jessaminechan's The School for Good Mothers, William Brewer's The Red Arrow & @asgharthegrouch's When We Were Sisters. https://t.co/PiCwiXsvwm

Paperback, 2023

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: House of Cotton, Monica Brashears

House of Cotton

Monica Brashears
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HOUSE OF COTTON is a Black Southern Gothic fairytale set in a funeral parlor, the first book I sold as an agent & one of the most amazing novels I've ever read. It'll make your brain & soul hum. I'm very excited to see an excerpt of it up at @TODAYshow! https://t.co/pSDQA8SyBf https://t.co/DRJ7zSwhsb

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Book Cover for: An American Marriage, Tayari Jones

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones
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...Geter's life spans the continents of the earth, but also crosses the lands and oceans of human experience. She is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the truth.” -Tayari Jones, AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE https://t.co/ralcLcPpex

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