A Novel
by Akwaeke Emezi
Recommended by Daniel José Older
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in LGBTQ, Adult, and Fiction.
Named one of the year?s most anticipated books by The New York Times, Harper?s Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and moreWhat does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knewOne afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son?s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumult...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in LGBTQ, Adult, and Fiction.
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Daniel José Older
American fantasy and young adult fiction writer (1980–)
“I found it very life affirming. I'm not big on depressing books and I genuinly loved it and didnt feel weighed down by it”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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