Hedgebrook Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“Black Cake is a beautiful, deeply resonant story of children trying to understand the mother they have lost” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising https://t.co/D9eHiHOLHF @charmspen1 📸: from https://t.co/vUXVpTNENV #HedgebrookAlumnae https://t.co/MlgQ8bBk2t

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“Black Cake is a beautiful, deeply resonant story of children trying to understand the mother they have lost” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising https://t.co/D9eHiHOLHF @charmspen1 📸: from https://t.co/vUXVpTNENV #HedgebrookAlumnae https://t.co/MlgQ8bBk2t

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This month our team is digging into Ibram X. Kendi's book, How to be an Antiracist, as part of our Justice Book Club. @DrIbram https://t.co/E5eUEKnzb8

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Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric took Hedgebrook team's Justice Book Club deep as we investigated cultural and personal biases. Page 23 of this book starts with a look at Black rage as a commodity. Writing prompt: what does it mean to market rage for personal gain? https://t.co/bJmDdGGKFL

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Ruth's new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, made the 2022 Longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The Shortlist will be announced on April 27th and the winner on June 15th! Congrats Ruth!! 📸: Danielle Tait #HedgebrookAlumnae https://t.co/QQTo2Q7w2D

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Our team finished last year with Hedgebrook alum Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming. On page 22 of this book, we find the end of a poem bringing heartbreaking news. Try a free-write beginning with this line: "my mother heard her own mother say" @JackieWoodson https://t.co/Tdr83vyWbv

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Check out Sarah Ladipo Manyika's review of NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel, Glory! If you missed their conversation at Equivox '22 | Equal Voice, there is still time to watch it here: https://t.co/JbyX9PINZE. https://t.co/TRS49aiTVx @guardian

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Her newest book, Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora releases on Jan. 31st. Pre-order your copy here: https://t.co/JJ2nVWcEIz

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Dr. Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent rocked our Justice Book Club with new language and framing racism as a tool of the caste system in the US. We pull this week's prompt from page 22 of this highly awarded and necessary book: write about your birthright. https://t.co/PvE4cOvjmm

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Vanessa Hua's new novel, Forbidden City, JUST came out and Kirstin Chen's new book, Counterfeit, comes out in June. Join us as we talk about new books and what it takes to put them out into the world. Details: https://t.co/vcGBSZS0rv #Hedgebrook #WritersinConversation https://t.co/kEug7CSUIa