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Today I want to share what fictional books I have saved in my everand (scribd) accont.
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Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Genre: fiction, literary fiction, magical realism, contemporary, adult fiction
Format: ebook and audiobook
Trigger warnings: addiction, animal death, drug abuse, death, racism, racial slurs, sexual assault and violence, child abuse, grief, toxic relationship, torture, police brutality, hate crime
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager.
His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances.
When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love.
Title: You Truly Assumed
Author: Laila Sabreen
Genre: fiction, contemporary, young adult
Format: audiobook
Trigger warnings: racism, islamophobia, racial slurs, hate crime, racism, toxic friendship, death, grief, police brutality, bullying
Sabriya has her whole summer planned out in color-coded glory, but those plans go out the window after a terrorist attack near her home. When the terrorist is assumed to be Muslim and Islamophobia grows, Sabriya turns to her online journal for comfort. You Truly Assumed was never meant to be anything more than an outlet, but the blog goes viral as fellow Muslim teens around the country flock to it and find solace and a sense of community.
Soon two more teens, Zakat and Farah, join Bri to run You Truly Assumed and the three quickly form a strong friendship. But as the blog’s popularity grows, so do the pushback and hateful comments. When one of them is threatened, the search to find out who is behind it all begins, and their friendship is put to the test when all three must decide whether to shut down the blog and lose what they’ve worked for… or take a stand and risk everything to make their voices heard.
Title: This Time Will Be Different
Author: Misa Sugiura
Genre: fiction, contemporary, young adult, lgbtqia+
Format: audiobook
Trigger warnings: racism, homophobia, xenophobia, drug use, alcohol, abortion, gaslighting, pregnancy, toxic friendship, lesbophobia
Katsuyamas never quit – but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn’t even know where to start. She’s never lived up to her mom’s type A ambition, and she’s perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family’s flower shop.
She doesn’t buy into Hannah’s romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of.
Then her mom decides to sell the shop – to the family who swindled CJ’s grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ’s family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for.
Title: When No One Is Watching
Author: Alyssa Cole
Genre: fiction, mystery, thriller, contemporary, adult fiction
Format: ebook and audiobook
Trigger warnings: grief, colonisation, toxic relationship, violence, police brutality, forced institutionalization, death, infidelity, classism, blood, racism, kidnapping, slavery, medical trauma, hate crime, murder, gun violence
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting up like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block – her neighbor Theo.
But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.
Title: The Beauty of Your Face
Author: Sahar Mustafah
Genre: fiction, literary fiction, contemporary, historical fiction, adult fiction
Format: ebook
Trigger warnings: alcohol, hate crime, islamophobia, grief, gun violence, racial slurs, religious bigotry, xenophobia, bullying, death, addiction, suicide attempt, toxic relationship, emotional abuse, mass/school shootings, mental illness, violence
Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter – radicalized by the online alt-right – attacks the school.
As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories: the bigotry she faced as a child, her mother’s dreams of returning to Palestine, and the devastating disappearance of her older sister that tore her family apart. Still, there is the sweetness of the music from her father’s oud, and the hope and community Afaf finally finds in Islam.
Title: The Pact We Made
Author: Layla Alammar
Genre: fiction, literary fiction, contemporary, adult fiction
Format: ebook and audiobook
Trigger warnings: sexual assault, death, drug use, rape, self harm, mental illness, adult/minor relationship, child abuse, incest, pedophilia, suicide attempt, panic attacks/disorders
‘How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything about each other, the most monumental thing to ever happen to me was buried and covered over? For the sake of my reputation, my future, my sister’s and cousins; the family honor sat on my little shoulders, so no-one could ever know.’
Dahlia has two lives. In one, she is a young woman with a good job, great friends and a busy social life. In the other, she is an unmarried daughter living at home, struggling with a burgeoning anxiety disorder and a deeply buried secret: a violent betrayal too shameful to speak of.
With her thirtieth birthday fast-approaching, pressure from her mother to accept a marriage proposal begins to strain the family. As her two lives start to collide and fracture, all Dahlia can think of is escape: something that seems impossible when she can’t even leave the country without her father’s consent.
But what if Dahlia does have a choice? What if all she needs is the courage to make it?
Title: How We Disappeared
Author: Jing-Jing Lee
Genre: fiction, historical fiction,literary fiction, adult fiction
Format: ebook and audiobook
Trigger warnings: sexual violence, death, war, murder, torture, sex slavery, sexism, suicidal thoughts, death, grief, confinement, kidnapping
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child.
In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military rape camp. In the year 2000, her mind is still haunted by her experiences there, but she has long been silent about her memories of that time. It takes twelve-year-old Kevin, and the mumbled confession he overhears from his ailing grandmother, to set in motion a journey into the unknown to discover the truth.
Title: Nothing Burns as Bright as You
Author: Ashley Woodfolk
Genre: fiction, lgbtia+, romance, young adult
Format: ebook and audiobook
Trigger warnings: toxic friendship, toxic relationship, alcohol, racism,  domestic abuse, emotional abuse, sexual content, grief, homophobia, misogyny, bullying, pedophilia
Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire.
They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous.
Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren’t so easily tamed.
It starts with a fire.
How will it end?
Title: The Stationery Shop
Author: Marjan Kamali
Genre: fiction, romance, historical fiction, adult fiction
Format: ebook and audiobook
Trigger warnings: child death, war, death, emotional abuse, mental illness, miscarriage, suicide attempt, toxic relationship, grief, classism, police brutality, misogyny, sexism, abortion
Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink.
Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer – handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry – and she loses her heart at once. Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.Â
A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence erupts – a result of the coup d’etat that forever changes their country’s future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful heart, she moves on – to college in California, to another man, to a life in New England – until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me?
Note: The information was taken from the storygraph and goodreads.
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