Rhya 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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The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade BambaraRhya“Choose your cure, sweetheart. Decide what you want to do with wholeness. […] The source of health is never outside, sweetheart. What will you do when you are well?” Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
Paperback, 1992
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hills of Hebron
Sylvia WynterRhya“They had a respect for madness. It was a private nirvana a man could reach when he was pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, when his spirit was so troubled that his body became a temple of dreams.” —Sylvia Wynter, The Hills of Hebron
Paperback, 2012
$18.95Member price:$18.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Sunaura TaylorRhya@GGhosteyes So not literary, but critics texts that might help your search/frame conversations: Becoming Human by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor
Hardcover, 2017
$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica KincaidRhya“The impulse to possess is alive in every heart, and some people choose vast plains, some people choose high mountains, some people choose wide seas, and some people choose husbands; I chose to possess myself.” —Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
Out of stock
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Zakiyyah Iman JacksonRhya@GGhosteyes So not literary, but critics texts that might help your search/frame conversations: Becoming Human by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor
Paperback, 2020
$34.00Member price:$34.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)