Tag: cross-cultural fiction

Jade City

Jade City--a digital cover for the book by Fonda Lee. It shows greenish, leafy embellishments on a dark background. Near the bottom, a button invites the reader to "continue."

I’ve been meaning to read Jade City for a while, and I don’t know what took me so long. Once I finally got into it, I found this book totally […]

Binti

A library copy of Binti floats over Earth as if the book is in space. On the cover, a brown-skinned woman marks patterns in an orangish red on her face.

I picked this up from the library after a friend recommended it on Goodreads, and it’s every bit as good as she said it was. I’m probably going to want […]

Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco

Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco is a good book. Jacinta and Miss learn a lot from each other in this sweet and sometimes sad foray into the life […]

The Hate U Give

The cover of The Hate U Give sits above swirling police car lights. On the cover, the main character, Starr, who is black, holds a sign, much as one would hold a protest sign, but her sign gives the name of the book.

Like all my favorite stories, Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give introduced me to a whole new world. Except, however foreign it feels to me, Starr’s world exists. It’s in […]