The Midnight Taxi

The Midnight TaxiWhen the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera. Siriwathi Perera doesnt quite know where shes going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends meet and still living with her parents at twenty eight. The true crime podcasts that keep Siri company as she drives

stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans

”—Tommy Orange

a movement genealogy

Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished

Walter Dean Myers said: "I would like young people to consider what happened to Steve Harmon

The young men

A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching

a teacher’s angry

From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong

An aspiring oenophile's dream

and dying for cobalt

" — Marisa Tirado