The 18 Best Books to Pick Up This Month
Novelist Nicole Krauss tells a tale of postdivorce soul-searching, Eileen Myles composes a paean to her pit bull, a friendship goes up in flames in Claire Messud's latest, plus more titles to pick up now.
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
By Aja Monet
168 pages;
Haymarket Books
A Caribbean American poet and speaker at the Women’s March on
Washington, Monet sings the praises of matriarchs and “black joy” in a
triumphant collection interweaving social commentary and verse that, in
her words, “will make your hips laugh.”
— Jordan Sebastian Bonner, Leigh Haber, Taylor Lannamann
Published 09/28/2017
