WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY – FICTION
Aria Aber’s Good Girl: A Novel is a story of art, family, love, and survival. In Berlin’s underground of raves, art, and drugs, teenage Nila – born to Afghan parents and raised in graffiti-stained public housing – searches for her voice. Drawn into the orbit of Marlowe, a fading American writer, she tastes freedom but risks losing herself. As racial tensions rise, Nila must decide who she wants to be. In Darrow Farr’s The Bombshell: A Novel, beautiful, brash Séverine is enjoying a luxurious summer on the Mediterranean coast – until she’s captured and held for ransom by a militant trio fighting for Corsican independence. As she’s exposed to the group’s politics, newfound beliefs take root, and she becomes the face of a radical movement – pushing her summer toward an explosive conclusion. Fabienne Josaphat’s Kingdom of No Tomorrow: A Novel follows Nettie, who joins the Black Panther Party’s Free Health Clinics in 1968 Oakland. She’s soon drawn into a dangerous movement and passionate love affair with a prominent figure in the party. As covert FBI campaigns close in and internal tensions rise, she must confront what justice – and survival – truly mean for a Black woman within the revolution.
Buy The Bombshell: A Novel – Farr
Buy Kingdom of No Tomorrow: A Novel – Josaphat
