The Awesome Book That I Can’t Recommend to Everyone: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

My only criticism of this book is that it’s an awesome story that I can only recommend to a few people. Y’all, these are sexy stories. Beyond the sexy stories, though, Balli Kaur Jaswal presents a multi-faceted critique of both Indian and Western culture.

Pride by Ibi Zoboi: A Classic Remix

The story follows Zuri as she grapples changes in her community, her family, and in herself. Inspired by Jane Austen’s classic, Pride stays close to the original’s plot points, while at the same time able to stand on its own as a relevant, engaging, and timely tale.

A Book that Broke My Heart: Into the Wild

The fact that he died is not a secret in this book–it’s written on the cover, in the introduction, and the subject of the first chapter. But that did not stop me from wishing that he lived with every turn of the page, that if I talked to the pages of the book, maybe he would handle things differently.

A Thestral of a Book: Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking

You Might Like This Book If You… have experienced/are experiencing deep grief after the loss of a loved one are a counselor or someone equally invested in human emotion enjoy stream-of-consciousness writing