Been waitin’ with breath that is baited to purchase 2019 James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi’s ☛NOTES FROM A YOUNG BLACK CHEF with Joshua David Stein [pub: Knopf]. At risk of getting kicked out of the #BlackGirlsRock sorority, I love this memoir more than Michelle Obama’s beautifully written BECOMING.
Queenie By Candice Carty-Williams
Happiest of pub days to Candice Carty-Williams! The Jamaican Brit’s debut novel ☛QUEENIE [pub: Gallery/Scout Press] drops in the U.S. today.
Per Simon & Schuster:
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.
Survival Math By Mitchell S. Jackson
Happiest of Pub days to Mitchell S. Jackson on the release of his latest book ☛SURVIVAL MATH: NOTES ON AN ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY!
Per Simon & Schuster:
In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth,
Well-Read Black Girl By Glory Edim
Glory Edim’s anthology ☛WELL-READ BLACK GIRL: FINDING OUR STORIES, DISCOVERING OURSELVES [pub: Ballatine Books] is finally here! Avid readers around the globe pre-ordered this collection of original essays by the likes of Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones and more.
If Beale Street Could Talk Novel by James Baldwin, Movie by Barry Jenkins
Read, or um, hopefully re-read James Baldwin’s ☛IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK [pub: Vintage International] before the film releases in theaters nationwide on November 30th. While I don’t remember the age, grade or even the year, I first read Beale Street, I will never forget the taste of bittersweetness that lingered after I finished it.
Blend By Mashonda Tifrere
Congratulations to Mashonda Tifrere. The mother of one, author and singer’s book ☛BLEND: THE SECRET TO CO-PARENTING AND CREATING A BALANCED FAMILY [pub:TarcherPerigee] drops today. Her ex-husband and son’s father, music producer Swizz Beatz wrote a chapter and his current wife singer/songwriter Alicia Keys penned the foreward.
