SMART, POLITICAL & SUBVERSIVE – FICTION

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Grappling with violence and grief after the loss of his parents, Cyrus is an addict and a poet whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past in KAVEH AKBAR’s Martyr! A Novel. VINSON CUNNINGHAM’s Great Expectations: A Novel spans 18 months in the life of David, working on a senator’s campaign to become the first Black U.S. president and coming to terms with his identity as a young Black man and father. And in God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel, JOSEPH EARL THOMAS offers a powerful examination of everyday Black life and the struggle to build intimate connections, as told through the eyes of an ex-military grad student in Philadelphia.

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Buy Martyr! A Novel – Akbar

Buy Great Expectations: A Novel – Cunningham

Buy God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel – Thomas

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