Debut Essays or Short Stories
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Debut Essays or Short Stories. Annotations from Kirkus, unless otherwise attributed.
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Sleeping Alone
This short story collection methodically strips away the intricate layers of privilege, revealing the sometimes-sinister truth that no one is ever truly safe, regardless of societal status.
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Are We Ever Our Own
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes's award-winning short story collection traces the Cuban diaspora through the struggles and triumphs of the Castell family's women. (NoveList)
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A Broken People's Playlist
Snapshots of failed romances and busted families in Nigeria.
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Other Ever Afters
Happily-ever-after has no predictable formula for these protagonists.
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Amplified Heart
Amplified Heart: An Emotional Discography is a collection of essays linked by Seattle-based poet and essayist Bryn Gribben's love of music. From childhood memories to grown-up loves, music carries this book from joy to heartache and back again. (Publisher)
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Brown Neon
How do we map the terrains of love, land, and art?In this debut essay collection, poet, critic, and educator Gutie´rrez, who is based in Tucson, Arizona, engages these questions through stories of the borders that bind and those that break.
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Girls Can Kiss Now
A White, gay woman uses her love of pop culture to reflect on her continuing journey toward accepting her whole self, including her sexuality.
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The Crane Wife
A novelist examines her troubled romantic relationships through a cultural lens.“I am a kind of breakup pro,” Hauser writes late in this lively, thoughtful, and often funny set of personal essays—at a point when the reader has learned much about how unlucky in love she’s been.
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How Far the Light Reaches
Part memoir and part study of the intricacies of the ocean, this exploration invites readers to imagine alternative ways of living.
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Self-portrait With Ghost
Jin (Little Gods) returns with a provocative magical realist collection in which women fall in love, grieve, and figure out what to make of their lives amid constant changes. (Publishers Weekly)
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