CONFRONTING GRIEF & PROCESSING TRAUMA – FICTION

When Abe leaves Miami and returns to his former reservation, he undergoes a reluctant healing with his eccentric uncle, sparking a journey that explores family, intimacy, and the enduring power of culture. His story is told by Aaron John Curtis in Old School Indian: A Novel, a coming-of-middle-age novel about a Kanien’kehá:ka man confronting a rare disease, a faltering marriage, and the pull of home. Rob Franklin’s debut Great Black Hope: A Novel tells the story of an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamorous parties and consequences, a friend’s mysterious death, and his own arrest. But his search for answers in New York City’s underworld may end up costing him his freedom and his future. And Jacinda Townsend’s Trigger Warning: A Novel is a searing story about the enduring impact of police brutality. After experiencing early trauma, including witnessing her father’s murder by the police, Ruth buries her past and builds a new life – until loss and upheaval force her back to California with her nonbinary teenager, where she must finally confront her grief and the possibility of renewal.

Buy Old School Indian: A Novel – Curtis

Buy Great Black Hope: A Novel – Franklin

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