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Kaitlyn Greenidge Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Kaitlyn Greenidge is an editor and author. Features Director @harpersbazaarus Author of "LIBERTIE” and We Love You, Charlie Freeman" (@algonquinbooks) https://t.co/wjqj6fVUWJ

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Book Cover for: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

RT @JenLouiseWilson: Would Lenin have liked the new Sally Rooney novel? Read my review of "Beautiful World, Where Are you" to find out. h…

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Gloria T. Hull

Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

Gloria T. Hull
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

Alice Dunbar Nelson is also featured in this EXCELLENT biography of three of the messiest Black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Color Sex and Poetry by Gloria T Hull (THAT TITLE) https://t.co/P6aBGVHIAI

Paperback, 1987

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family, Kerri K. Greenidge

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Kerri K. Greenidge
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

3 months away from my brilliant sister @greenidgekerri's new book THE GRIMKES...This book has EVERYTHING...colorism, Black queer women in the 1900s, the dirty laundry of the Black upper class & the phrase "licked her rosebuds"...A thread of the best parts https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324090847

Hardcover, 2022

$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

You can volunteer to be part of the community choir in Lincoln Center's opera version of Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER Toshi Reagon has been working on this for years. And they need community members to sing. And you can volunteer at WEEKSVILLE https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=n0FMlk9R1UG28q0eX7MGR19oX9dlLnpJltxjKoPJ09hUQ1dHMk44SlJKWFNFUThKTE01TDE0TzRVMC4u

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Black Girl in Paris, Shay Youngblood

Black Girl in Paris

Shay Youngblood
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

Make Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl In Paris into a limited series, you cowards https://t.co/S1zYswOMWP

Paperback, 2013

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Bridge of Beyond, Simone Schwarz-Bart

The Bridge of Beyond

Simone Schwarz-Bart
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

“But I didn't come into the world to weigh the world's woe. I prefer to dream, on and on, standing in my garden, just like any other old woman of my age, till death comes and takes me as I dream, me and all my joy.”—Simone Schwarz-Bart, THE BRIDGE OF BEYOND

Paperback, 2013

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge

Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

RT @AlgonquinBooks: Yes, another best-of-the-year honor for Kaitlyn Greenidge's #Libertie - @nytimesbooks Best Historical Fiction of 2021!…

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Meaning of Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

RT @secondmelvin: .@bmluse wrote about “Passing,” passing, and “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” https://t.co/8hoIJiVkB2

Paperback, 2021

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

Something I think about often is how Lorraine Hansberry was trailed by the FBI her whole life but the agent in charge of watching her decided A Raisin in the Sun was not a threat because both white & Black audiences going to see it wouldn't understand what it was actually saying

Paperback, Mass Market, 2004

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, Diane Di Prima

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

Diane Di Prima
Kaitlyn GreenidgeKaitlyn Greenidge

“I was simply not equipped, not able to take in the idea that the pain & pleasure of daily life was something to acknowledge. That someone was willing to talk about these things. It was hard enough to simply let the love in.”--Diane di Prima “Recollections of My Life as a Woman”

Paperback, 2002

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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