Tomi Obaro 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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Tomi Obaro is a writer and editor. Writer, editor, author of DELE WEDS DESTINY.
Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition
Louise ErdrichTomi ObaroReading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine for the first time and you know how some writers just come out the gate with such assuredness and authority? Damn
Paperback, 2009
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa BankTomi ObaroI just wrote about reading A Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing for our newsletter a few months ago. So sad to hear of Melissa Bank’s untimely death https://t.co/QfDvlJgW4W
Paperback, 2000
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If I Survive You
Jonathan EscofferyTomi Obaro[Escoffery's] observations about being racially ambiguous and the confusion of being a light-skinned Jamaican...feel particularly astute. I laughed and I cringed when reading this memorable debut by an author set to have a huge literary career.
Paperback, 2023
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Recitatif: A Story
Toni MorrisonTomi ObaroAnd so i knew I wanted to incorporate some of those aspects into a story. Fast forward to the summer of 2019; I had written a whole other novel that I was slowly realizing wasn’t good. Then in very cliched and dramatic fashion, following Toni Morrison’s death, I tossed it out
Hardcover, 2022
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A Strange Loop
Michael R. JacksonTomi ObaroI finally saw A Strange Loop yesterday (which I enjoyed though I did not love watching it in a theatre full of white people) I found Michael jackson’s response to having an all Black audience interesting in this great @nielaorr profile https://t.co/m79v2j42TD
Paperback, 2021
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Biography of X
Catherine LaceyTomi ObaroThe biography of x is out today and can confirm that catherine lacey did the thing; it's ambitious and unpredictable and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it!
Hardcover, 2023
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The Widow's Children
Paula FoxTomi ObaroA masterclass in compression... What’s most remarkable about this novel is how many perspectives Fox inhabits seamlessly: We flit between all the characters; we see their desires and failed ambitions.
Paperback, 1999
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Easy Beauty: A Memoir
Chloé Cooper JonesTomi ObaroThis is an excerpt from the memoir EASY BEAUTY out April 5, which I loved! https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1508840185114640387
Paperback, 2023
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Desperate Characters
Paula FoxTomi ObaroAn immaculate short novel about two married gentrifiers living in Brooklyn in the late ’60s is Paula Fox’s most famous work... I reread it recently and was awed again at its quiet mastery and the feeling of nebulous dread it conjures.
Paperback, 2015
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Dele Weds Destiny
Tomi ObaroTomi ObaroMy novel DELE WEDS DESTINY comes out in exactly one month tomorrow and I'd thought I'd share a bit about how the book came to be https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676714/dele-weds-destiny-by-tomi-obaro/
Paperback, 2023
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