Kendra Atleework‘s new memoir Miracle Country is a sweeping family memoir that explores the connection of a family to a place. Here are her recommendations of five memoirs that also deal with place, history, and family (after you’ve read Miracle Country, of course.) 1. Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy: the writing life,Continue reading

Kendra Atleework‘s debut book Miracle Country is a memoir of a person, a family—and a place. She grew up in Swall Meadows, California, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. And in this excerpt from Miracle Country, she explainsContinue reading

Read about these ten books, both timely and topical, as well as escapist and delightful—perfect reading for a most unusual summer!—and then fill out the form below to enter for a chance to win a complete set of them. Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump “Bump’s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where orContinue reading

We encourage you to support black-owned independent bookstores in your area—not just now, but always—by buying books, going to store events, and following them on social media. These suggestions below are, by no means, an exhaustive list of black-owned bookstores. For further resources, see this list of 124 bookstores across America. And please contact usContinue reading

We all face another day of grief and anger in our country. The spark was the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. But the fuel was the tenacious hold that racism has on this country, recognized and felt by so many on a daily basis in its many forms.Continue reading