Anada's Picks
Rich and layered consideration of African American historical trauma and the myriad ways Black Americans have chosen to negotiate a society that wants to disenfranchise them at best, and murder them at regular intervals. Impressed with with what feels like a very fresh take on the historical fiction genre; a timeless class drama with a soupçon of magical realism!
Had me plastered to the page. It'd been awhile since I felt such palpable disappointment at saying goodbye to a cast of characters, but the personalities within this book and the journeys they're each bidden to take really got me in the gut. Heavily American novel about the nature of choice, the inevitability of the past, and the devastating tenacity of the spirit. Hilarious and sad!
Brilliant! Few times have I felt as vindicated as I did while imagining Clark's heroine, Maryse, lop off the heads of Ku Klux monsters. A thoughtful and well-paced read that punches white supremacy directly in the face, with style and grace. I will not pretend that I did not cry!
A beautifully queer romance of geographies that left me breathless, desperate to touch and be touched.
"At the time, it was not so near the end and when my mother woke we found the car and left Portland, my mother saying my name. "Lizzie", she said. "Lizzie." I felt as though I must be with her somewhere and that she knew that too, but not in that old blue convertible traveling home in the dark, the soft, stained roof ballooning up as I knew it looked like it was from outside. I got out of it, but it took me years."
from Escapes
A depressive 30-something faced with the dissolution of her marriage, the declining health of her parents, and a dwindling supply of xanax joins a training program for individuals interested in assisting terminally ill "clients" towards achieving a conscious death. Painfully real, with dashes of the dark and the light in all the right places; read if you're looking to get in a laugh while you spend a few days obsessing over your own mortality and the loss of those you hold dearest! Contemplative desert landscapes abound.
" Heatherton: "In the conclusion of Black Marxism, you note that Black radicalism remained a currency of resistance and revolt for revolutionaries like Angela Y. Davis. In the present moment, how do visions of liberation articulated by the Black Radical Tradition help us in developing a philosophy of praxis?"
Cedric Robinson: "Part of it is, in effect, developing a method of understanding the word around you. Our communities are marvelous phenomena. In a sense, the totalitites that we have experienced historically have each, in the moment, seemed unassailable. At each crisis we shouldn't have survived, but we have. The current ordering of the world is so fragile. That is the lesson: in each historical moment, justice, social justice, and moral authority are questioned. They seem to be on their last legs, but that has never proven to be the case. That's one of the lasting lessons of Black Marxism.""
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"There the suede noises
The sounds of silk and shame
Are faith and form.
The small town passes,
The years chime.
But water-dark and down
The sounding stair
The ideas are
Lit by no door
No window pane
Where hearings drown.
The hand behind the love
The hat behind the grace
Behave like trees and move
And have three ways
And quench all noise.
What the rain preaches
What the stars say
Vanish in the gold eye
The wet day
Like God among the churches.
from Bartimeus
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