![]() The story of an 80-year-old widow, Ma, who travels across India to Pakistan in a journey that awakens many memories and wounds, both personal and historical, it’s beautiful, lyrical, fiercely feminist and often unexpectedly funny. Also, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (Tilted Axis), which deservedly won the International Booker prize this year. It’s a complex, multilayered examination of the tangled and often brutal relationships between African, Indigenous and European peoples that casts light on the deep connections between the present and the past. ![]() It tells the story of young African American woman Ailey and her family history over an epic sweep of two centuries. I’ll be giving people The Love Songs of W E B Du Bois (Fourth Estate), an astounding debut by the poet and essayist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. ![]()
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