BIPOC Fiction
By Boneshaker Books
By Boneshaker Books
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
$15.99 $14.71Set in a world where geological catastrophes are the norm, adds a class of people who can telekinetically control earth ("orogenes"), and asks what kind of society would form. The book follows Essun, a hidden orogene, as she looks for her missing children in the wake of a continental split. Although the setting is fantastic, the questions that the book asks about oppression and survival are very real. --Moli
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Junauda Petrus
$17.98 $16.54A gorgeous mixtape of a YA novel by local author Juanada Petrus (Free Black Dirt), effortlessly combining Black queer coming-of-age, a cancer story, prison abolition, and Whitney Houston. If nothing else, this book will probably make you want to read your astrological natal chart! --Moli
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
Kai Cheng Thom
$20.00Magical realism memoir of a Canadian trans girl gang whose turning point involves the murder of a cop. I cannot recommend this book enough!! I feel like conversations often stall on whether violence is justified, but Kai Cheng Thom goes beyond the question to examine the cost of living under violence and reacting with violence -- and she makes the read so much fun. --Moli
