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Detroit writer Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel poses rich questions about how we carry the collective histories of the places and people we come from.
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Octavia Butler's 1993 book, Parable of the Sower draws readers into a 2024 America ripped apart by poverty, corporate greed, and climate calamity — as a teenage girl leads a rag-tag group of followers through a scary world. Two of Butler's most famous fans, Toshi Reagon and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon have adapted Parable of the Sower into an opera, premiering in Michigan this weekend.
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Today, we return to one of the most anticipated YA reads of the year. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Michigan’s Angeline Boulley is at once a a ripping thriller and a complex story of a girl finding her way in two cultures. Since our conversation in February, it hit the New York Times best-seller list.
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An auto accident leaves a little girl with a shattered leg. She spends the next year bedridden in a body cast, wondering if she'll ever be back in school…
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It’s been about ten years since Peter Ho Davies came out with his first novel, The Welsh Girl. It was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Now,…
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Eileen Pollack's new novel, A Perfect Life, took a while to find a publisher.The book features a postdoctoral research scientist on a quest to uncover a…
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There aren't many books that serve up history, suspense, crime and a love story, all beautifully tied together.Wolf's Mouth manages to offer all that and…
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Writer Shannon Gibney tackles some very sensitive and emotional subjects in her new young adult novel See No Color.First, she speaks to us with the voice…
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All across Michigan, high school seniors are donning their caps and gowns and getting ready to graduate. For many, the next big adventure is going away to…
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The Old Testament story of Cain and Abel is one of the most compelling in the Bible. How could a man kill his brother?The tragedy is at the heart of the…