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Jamwriter Spotlight - How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue
In the fictional African village of Kosawa, the locals live in fear of Pexton, a predatory American oil corporation, whose destructive...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Mona, by Pola Oloixarac
On the morning that Mona, a young Peruvian-American writer, is set to fly to a Swedish convention where she’s been nominated for a...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this blistering sequel to 2015’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s nameless North Vietnamese spy, last seen speeding...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
In Ishiguro’s first publication since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, we meet the humanoid robot Klara, an Artificial...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in the summer’s buzziest debut: a blistering work of semi-autobiographical fiction about Nella, the...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
Whitehead goes back to his literary beginnings in his first noir since 1999's The Intuitionist. In Harlem Shuffle, it’s 1959, and used...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Billy Summers, by Stephen King
King’s latest endeavor begins with a familiar premise: ex-Marine sniper Billy Summers, a principled hit man on the eve of retirement,...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Calling for Charlie Barnes, by Joshua Ferris
With A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Ferris has written his finest novel yet: a fabulist yarn about a flawed father in the twilight of his...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Palmares, by Gayl Jones
When Toni Morrison discovered Jones in the seventies, she said of her debut novel, Corregidora, “No novel about any Black woman could...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
Expectations were high for Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney’s first outing since she became a global literary phenom—and her 2021...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Reprieve, by James Han Mattson
It’s April 1997, and four hopeful contestants have made it to the final room of the Quigley House, a “full contact” haunted escape room...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Camper Girl by Glenn Erick Miller
While her friends head off to college, Shannon Burke is stuck with a dead-end job and the responsibility of saving her mother’s business....
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine
Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir—”poignant, painful, and gorgeous” (Alicia Garza)—explores siblinghood, adolescence,...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment by Therese Doucet
Violaine, a devotee of books and learning, is sold by her father to a mysterious nobleman to become his companion. Fearing herself at the...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Temporary by Hilary Leichter
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness,...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 23, 2021
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