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Tag Archives: gender
Who Knows You by Heart – C. J. Farley
(Reviewed by JD Jung) In this multilayered and gripping novel, we are introduced to Octavia Crenshaw—a thirty-year-old Jamaican American software engineer whose journey is as compelling as the technological world that she navigates. A Columbia graduate and New Yorker, Octavia … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged AI, computers, ethics, family, gender, race, suspense, technology
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The Man of Middling Height – Fadi Zaghmout (Author), Wasan Abdelhaq (Translator)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) In most societies, identity and status are shaped by gender—and often, by the body parts we are born with. Jordanian author Fadi Zaghmount flips that concept on its head in his provocative speculative novel The Man … Continue reading
Posted in Middle Eastern Literature
Tagged gender, Jordan, Social satire, speculative fiction
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Trash – Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, (translated by JD Pluecker)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Who is the person who makes a life out of our leftovers? And, more specifically, what makes us who we are?” Griselda, a researcher, studies those who inhabit the Juárez city dump. She balances that … Continue reading
Posted in Latin American Literature
Tagged aging, dementia, family dysfunction, gender, love, Mexican literature, transgender, violence
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An UnderratedRead Revisited:My Monticello – Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “My whole life, it seems, there’s been a revival of hatred and violence toward people who look like me. Waves of men have surged into our town from all over the state, the country.” This … Continue reading
Posted in Revisited
Tagged culture, family, gender, multiculture, race, race relations, racism, society
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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Things I Have Withheld – Kei Miller
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “…the place where I have always felt most comfortably gay is in Jamaica. In Jamaica, I know the language and the mannerisms of queerness. In Jamaica, I know how to dance. In Jamaica, I do … Continue reading
Posted in Revisited
Tagged Caribbean literature, gender, LGBTQ
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The People of Ostrich Mountain- Ndirangu Githaiga
(reviewed by Ann Onymous ) This book takes its title from the view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from a distance. To some there appear to be ostriches up at the top but when we look closer, we each see different things. … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged family, friendship, gender, immigration, Kenya, race
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