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Contemporary Fiction

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105

Maame

Cover of Maame
Jessica
George
2023

Maddie, a young British Ghanaian woman and self-acknowledged late bloomer, navigates her twenties and finds her place in the world in this novel that explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures―and celebrates finally being able to find where you belong.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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Cho Nam-Joo
2020

The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. 

Black Cake

Cover of Black Cake
Charmaine
Wilkerson
2022

Two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.