Ploughshares Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyPloughsharesIn BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, Sally Rooney ultimately gives her answer to the question the novel’s title implies. The light is fading, she knows, and yet still we go on, thinking and talking and loving each other, illuminating small rooms. https://t.co/gmn2DE1Afs
Paperback, 2022
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Hanif AbdurraqibPloughsharesHanif Abdurraqib latest work, A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA, explores the history of Black art and performance, woven through with threads of personal narrative. https://t.co/SFjVzcRWYF @julia_megumi @NifMuhammad
Paperback, 2022
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I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Claire Vaye WatkinsPloughsharesClaire Vaye Watkins’s newest novel, I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS, asks readers to sit with discomfort until something gives. https://t.co/dOuJmtlGya
Paperback, 2022
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonPloughshares"THE PUSH and Toni Morrison’s BELOVED were both written in the maternal gothic tradition, and both novels use the form to explore how mothers are devalued and isolated by white, patriarchal power structures." https://t.co/zppVxDC7YX
Paperback, 2004
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Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana HeadleyPloughsharesMaria Dahvana Headley’s 2020 Beowulf translation works to center the lives and voices of women—a move that dramatically changes its handling of violence and trauma. https://t.co/oDL6iawU05 https://t.co/GZCKIxToPQ
Paperback, 2020
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Ma and Me: A Memoir
Putsata ReangPloughsharesPutsata Reang’s new memoir, MA AND ME, delves into the realization that many of her greatest struggles are rooted in the past, under the weight of inherited trauma and filial duty. Reang unshackles herself from family history and forges an identity. https://pshr.us/37VkHKC https://t.co/VLorG0RSJp
Paperback, 2023
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Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club: A Novel
Celeste NgPloughsharesCongratulations to @pronounced_ing ! OUR MISSING HEARTS was selected for TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022! Ng was the guest editor for our Summer 2020 Issue: https://t.co/R7KP3p4ihm
Paperback, 2023
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A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaPloughsharesFanfiction pummels its readers with emotion—joy, love, sex, and sorrow—until they are left feeling exposed, a raw nerve that jumps at the slightest graze. Hanya Yanagihara’s A LITTLE LIFE brings that same rawness into the literary world. https://t.co/XymrILokqh
Paperback, 2016
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Joy HarjoPloughsharesJoy Harjo’s signature project as the twenty-third U.S. Poet Laureate is one of mapmaking: gathering poems by forty-seven Native Nations poets in a cartography of voice. https://t.co/ZRAQdOouwq https://t.co/GlDNFoI9AD
Paperback, 2017
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins GilmanPloughsharesRealism and the Weird in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Shirley Jackson's “The Story We Used to Tell” https://t.co/4VnDy8jf4p @claudiaamcc https://t.co/HmhkSOMFSm
Paperback, 2024
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