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In the weekly Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week, the Montreal bookstore has recommended several new works of fiction, art books, periodicals, and comics for readers across the world for the month of February.
The list includes our favorite feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. See recommended books after the cut.
Whether you're already familiar with Adichie's work (most notably,Americanah) or you just know her as that author Beyoncé likes, you should read this essay. Adapted from a TEDx talk of the same name, Adichie lends her resonant writing style to issues of gender politics and makes her plans for a better, truer world known.
Christopher and his Kind by Christopher Isherwood
This beautiful new edition of Isherwood's 1976 memoir chronicles the author's ten year emigration from Britain. Starting in 1929, Isherwood takes us first to the boy bars of Berlin, and then, after the rise of Hitler, to his "sexual homeland" of California.The book is a fascinating look at the writer whose work has spanned decades and was, among many achievements, adapted into Cabaret.
Turtleface and Beyond by Arthur Bradford
It all starts when protagonist Georgie's friend decides to jump off a cliff, smacking his head on a turtle just below the water's surface. Though there are no fatalities, the incident jump starts a series of catastrophes, near misses, and complicated situations that seem to follow Georgie around. Bradford's work has been highly anticipated, and for good reason.
Disgruntled by Asali Solomon
Eight-year old Kenya is aware that she's different, but doesn't know how or why. All she knows, in this bildungsroman that takes us from West Philadelphia to the suburbs, following the sometimes funny, sometimes poignant story of a Black nationalist family, is that finding something that feels like home is easier said than done.
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Kelly LInk is back with a new collection of nine short stories, her first for adults in a decade. There are iguanas, Ouija boards, pyramids, life-sized dolls, and ghost hunting reality tv shows, but nothing is too fantastical for the humanizing touch of the author Neil Gaiman called a national treasure.
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