Our theme for June is authors who are Black, Indigenous, Asian or a person of color. If you're looking to identify books to complete various challenges, here are some top level details on each of these awesome nominated works.
The Girl With the Louding Voice is Abi Dare's debut novel. It takes place in Nigeria and its heroine, Udunni, is a 14-year old girl. Dare grew up in Lagos and has lived in the UK for more than 18 years.
This Mournable Body is Tsitsi Dangarembga's third novel. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. The protagonist of TMB is Tambudzai, also the focus of Dangarembga's debut, Nervous Conditions, and she confronts the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe.
Louise Erdrich's The Sentence is the latest of her prolific career. She is of indigenous heritage (German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother). It takes place largely in a book store in Minnesota (US) during the pre-vax COVID days, and focuses on Native American culture and ties to the spirit world.
I, Tituba, is one of Maryse Conde's older novels. Conde is a French novelist from Guadeloupe (Caribbean). The novel takes place in Massachusetts (US). This is a fictionalized and expanded story of Tituba, a slave from Barbados and the only Black woman accused during the Salem witch trials (late 1600s).
The Girl With the Louding Voice is Abi Dare's debut novel. It takes place in Nigeria and its heroine, Udunni, is a 14-year old girl. Dare grew up in Lagos and has lived in the UK for more than 18 years.
This Mournable Body is Tsitsi Dangarembga's third novel. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. The protagonist of TMB is Tambudzai, also the focus of Dangarembga's debut, Nervous Conditions, and she confronts the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe.
Louise Erdrich's The Sentence is the latest of her prolific career. She is of indigenous heritage (German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother). It takes place largely in a book store in Minnesota (US) during the pre-vax COVID days, and focuses on Native American culture and ties to the spirit world.
I, Tituba, is one of Maryse Conde's older novels. Conde is a French novelist from Guadeloupe (Caribbean). The novel takes place in Massachusetts (US). This is a fictionalized and expanded story of Tituba, a slave from Barbados and the only Black woman accused during the Salem witch trials (late 1600s).