#andrew carnegie medal

[wellesleybooks]

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.

Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian

#andrew carnegie medal #american library association #excellence in nonfiction #excellence in fiction #amanda peters #roxanna asgarian #berry pickers #we were once a family

[desdasiwrites]

#book quote of the day #rebecca makkai #the great believers #aids epidemic #aids crisis #historical fiction #lgbtq literature #1980s #lgbtqia+ #contemporary literature #Stonewall Book Award winner #Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction winner #award winning books #gay fiction #book quotes #booklr

[libraryjournal]

End of an era. ALA Midwinter, rebranded as LibLearnX, will be discontinued after 2025. Will the book award ceremonies be moved to the summer conference? The press release says:

As ALA looks ahead, efforts are underway to determine how best to present some of the most beloved celebratory events traditionally held at the January conference: the I Love My Librarian Awards; the RUSA Book & Media Awards, which features the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunrise Celebration; and the Youth Media Awards.  

#ala #library conventions #ala midwinter #liblearnX

[solarpowerlesbian]

oh the book ask game is SO cool!! 15, 17, and 20!

(also i know hardly anybody using storygraph! do you want to be friends?)

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them? yes!!! i read last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo which won the national book award, as well as the stonewall book award and a few others, and it was one of my 5 star reads of the year!! that time period of lgbt history is really interesting to me, and this was such a unique perspective into that time. i read the long way to a small angry planet by becky chambers which won the hugo award for best series. that one was a lot of fun, i'm planning on eventually getting the other books in the series! i also read sea of tranquility by emily st. john mandel, which was a very good & quick read and which was nominated for the andrew carnegie medal of excellence. i also read our wives under the sea which was another quick read and which was apparently a finalist for the lambda literary award. kind of surprised how many i read that were nominated or won awards!!

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were? yes the ballad of songbirds and snakes like obviously i should have known. it's literally suzanne collins. but i was like ohh idk it's about president snow i don't know how i feel about that-- and then i read it. i was so gripped by it and so enthralled by the story that the second i finished i started rereading the hunger games. anyway need to go see the movie asap

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations? to be honest. it was probably percy jackson and the chalice of the gods like sure i was looking forward to like the new tj klune book and whatnot but. i was counting down the days until the new percy jackson book came out. and it was good enough. some of the cultural references didn't quite work but it was fun and i enjoyed it :)

and YES!!!! my storygraph is here i love adding people on storygraph. need more storygraph friends asap!!!

#thank youuu #ask #overalldyke

[rockislandadultreads]

2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence: Fiction Longlist

Introducing a handful of nominees from the fiction longlist for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence! To see the entire longlist, click here.

Witness by Jamel Brinkley

What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost?

In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters - from children to grandmothers to ghosts - live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape not only their own futures but the legacies and prospects of their families and their city.

In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, the meaning of home, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust - doctors, employers, siblings - too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon.

With prose as upendingly beautiful as it is artfully, seamlessly crafted, Jamel Brinkley offers nothing less than the full scope of life and death and change in the great, unending drama of the city.

All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. Those festering secrets are now out in the open and ready to tear the town apart.

As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.

The Water Outlaws by S.L. Lunag

In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.

Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.

Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.

Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.

Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.

Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies—everything in between is speculation.

After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight.

In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment. Anh works in a clothing factory to pay their bills. Minh loiters about with fellow unemployed high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his British friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor’s guilt, unmoored by their parents’ absence. With every choice they make, their paths diverge further, until it’s unclear if love alone can keep them together.

Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart their fate, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by war and loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.

#fiction #fiction books #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

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Around the Tubes

Some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup #comics #comicbooks

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d you all get? What’d you like? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day. The Beat – Bell’s THE TALK and Higa’s OKINAWA longlisted for 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence – Congrats! Kotaku – Spider-Man 2 Fast Travel Is So Quick Players Think It’s A Trick –…

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#beneath the trees where nobody sees #catwoman #comic books #Comics #justice league vs. godzilla vs. kong #marvels spider-man 2 #okinawa #sensational she-hulk #the talk

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down), encountering perils and temptations along the way.

 Watership Down was Richard Adams' debut novel. It was rejected by several publishers before Collings accepted the manuscript; the published book then won the annual Carnegie Medal (UK), annual Guardian Prize (UK), and other book awards. The novel was adapted into an animated feature film in 1978 and, from 1999 to 2001, an animated children's television series. In 2018, a drama of the story was made, which both aired in the UK and was made available on Netflix.

 Adams completed a sequel almost 25 years later, in 1996, Tales from Watership Down, constructed as a collection of 19 short stories about El-ahrairah and the rabbits of the Watership Down warren.

  Watership Down is a 1978 British animated adventure-drama film, written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams.  It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions and was distributed by Cinema International Corporation in the United Kingdom. Released on 19 October 1978, the film was an immediate success and it became the sixth-most popular film of 1979 at the UK box office.

 It features the voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne and Roy Kinnear, among others, and was the last film work of Zero Mostel, as the voice of Kehaar the gull. The musical score was by Angela Morley and Malcolm Williamson. Art Garfunkel's hit song "Bright Eyes" was written by songwriter Mike Batt. It has garnered a cult following.

  Opening Credits; Introduction (1.21); Background History (20.15); Watership Down Plot Synopsis (21.57); Book Thoughts (29.16); Let's Rate (50.29); Introducing a Film (52.51); Watership Down Film Trailer (1978) (56.13); Lights, Camera, Action (59.36); How Many Stars (1:40.44); End Credits (1:44.27); Closing Credits (1:45.25)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – Copyright . All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Bright Eyes from Watership Down by Art Garfunkel. Taken from the album Fate for Breakfast. Copyright 1978 Columbia Records.  

 Incidental Music:  Music from Watership Down by Angela Morley.  Available on the Watership Down 1978 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Copyright 1978 Vocation Records.

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used by Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

#SoundCloud #music #Literary License Podcast #Once Upon A Time #Watership Down #LLPodcast #Book To Screen #Richard Adams #Book

[likecastle]

11 & 15 ;) for the book asks, please & thanks!

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

OK the problem is that there is one answer to this question that is just head and shoulders above the others, and that is The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, which is pretty much just one banger after another from start to finish, so any other classics (or even regular old backlist titles) I read this year can’t even begin to compare. It’s so goddamn good. The fact that I loved it so much shouldn’t be a surprise, as it’s both a certified classic and my admiration for Jackson is well-documented. But goddamn! Jackson is such a master of attention and interiority, and it’s such a pleasure to see someone so talented explore her preoccupations with such skill and wicked aplomb. I’d read a lot of the stories independently but never all together (shhhh don’t tell anyone I’m a fake fan!), and it’s so worth reading them as a collection for the way the stories play off each other. It’s one of those books that is both extraordinarily good and also extremely down my personal alley. There’s just no contest, what a jewel.

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

Oh lordy this question sent me into such a quandary, you can’t even imagine. I don’t read all that much frontlist and I guess I don’t pay all that much attention to awards, either, because I really had to think to answer this. But I did read Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, which came out this year, and that was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. I . . . liked it OK. It’s a sequel(-ish) to A Visit from the Goon Squad, and formally it’s doing pretty much the same thing. I found her short story Black Box really striking when I first read it several years ago (it was originally published on Twitter), but the revised version didn’t really move me quite as much for some reason. I don’t know. It was good. Egan is good! But it just didn’t quite thrill me.

Ask me about the books I read this year!

#crushcandles #thank youuuuu #book asks

[otherpplnation]

866. Anne Enright

Anne Enright is the author of the novel The Wren, The Wren, available from W.W. Norton & Co.

Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Book Awards. She lives in Dublin.

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[hollymbryan]

Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read COLD GIRLS by Maxine Rae! #tbrbeyondtours

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the blog tour for the beautiful YA contemporary, Cold Girls, from debut novelist Maxine Rae. I’ve got all the info below for you, plus my top 5 reasons to read the book.

About the Book

title: Cold Girls author: Maxine Rae publisher: Flux release date: 22 August 2023

Eighteen-year-old Rory Quinn-Morelli doesn’t want to die; she wants refuge from reality for even a minute: the reality where she survived the car crash eight months ago, and her best friend, Liv, didn’t. Yet her exasperating mother won’t believe the Xanax incident was an accident, and her therapist is making it increasingly hard to maintain the detached, impenetrable “cold girl” façade she adopted from Liv. After she unintentionally reconnects with Liv’s parents, Rory must decide: will she keep Liv’s and her secrets inside, or will she finally allow herself to break? And if she breaks, what will she unearth amid the pieces?

Content Warning: Grief

Add to Goodreads: Cold Girls Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Bookshop.org

About the Author

Maxine Rae attended Tulane University where she was taught and singled out for commendation by two-time National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. While working on Cold Girls, Maxine received feedback and mentorship from National Book Award–finalist Charles Baxter. She later revised and workshopped the manuscript in the selective Novel in a Year program at StoryStudio Chicago, whose artistic director is Pulitzer Prize in Fiction–finalist and Andrew Carnegie Medal–winner Rebecca Makkai. As a young, queer woman from the Chicago area, Maxine has written a debut molded by emotional truth.

Connect with Maxine: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads

Top 5 Reasons to Read

I loved this book so much, and there are certainly more than five reasons to read it, but here are my top five:

1. Above all, it is a gentle yet unflinching look at grief and loss and how they impact a person, body, mind, and soul.

2. It’s a reflection on the transformative power of true friendship, and how having a close relationship can even change how we think/feel about ourselves.

3. The writing is simply breathtaking; I annotated as I read and I ended up highlighting and flagging so many beautiful passages. It’s astonishing to me that this is a debut!

4. The author shows us how different and chaotic families can be, whether that’s biological or found family.

5. Finally, I love how the author portrays the importance of taking care of our mental health, and of how necessary therapy can be. I’m so glad this was included in Rory’s journey.

While I know this isn’t a traditional book review, I couldn’t let it go unsaid that this is absolutely a 5-star read for me. Beautiful, heartbreaking, stunning -- I hope you will pick this one up asap!

Thank you to Flux and Maxine Rae for the ARC and to TBR and Beyond for having me on the tour!

Be sure to check out the bookstagram tour too! You can find my post here, and the full schedule is here.

#cold girls #maxine rae #yalit #ya lit #ya literature #ya contemporary #contemporary ya #grief #coping with grief #dealing with grief #dealing with loss #grieving #debut #debut author #debut novel #flux #flux books #top 5 reasons to read #book review #bookreview #bookreviews #book recommendations #book rec #book recs #new release #new releases #newrelease #newreleases #5 stars #5 star

[annarellix]

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Ray Carney #2)

1971 – Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated – and deadly. When one of Ray’s tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.

In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.

Book page: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/colson-whitehead/crook-manifesto/9780349727646/

My Review: Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite contemporary writers. I think I could read his shopping list and write something like “Brilliant, exciting, strongly recommended” as my brain starts to fangirling and loving every single sentence. I loved his books since I read The Underground Railroad, had a sort of mystical epiphany when I read the Nickel Boy and it was a constant literary love, this means Crook Manifesto was one of my top books of 2023. I know that you usually end a book before reviewing but I’m loving it so much that I cannot wait to talk about it. New York, Harlem, the social changes of the 70s are at the core of this brilliant story. There’s violence, there’s fun and there a lot of food for thought as you wonder if the story is going to repeat. I was curious to read about Ray Carney new enterprises and wondering what would happen. I wasn’t disappointed and I can tell this is a great story, a book that brought me back in time and showed me another side of New York. As I grew up listening to Patti Smith and Television my vision of the city was quite arty and bohemian. This story shows the other city and showed me how normal people was living, the racism and the social issues. It was like travelling back in time to a parallel reality and discovering new aspects and event. The storytelling, the character and plot development are as super as usual and I’m not fangirling while I write this. I strongly recommend it and cannot wait to read the third book in the Harlem Trilogy Many thanks to Little, Brown Book Group UK for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

The Author: Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City.

Website http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/ Twitter: colsonwhitehead

#Harlem Trilogy #colson whitehead #Little Brown co Uk Netgalley review

[desdasiwrites]

– Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

#book quote of the day #rebecca makkai #the great believers #historical fiction #lgbtqia literature #contemporary fiction #1980s #lgbtqia+ #Stonewall Book Award winner #Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction winner #female authors

[carnegiehero]

[afrotumble]

The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses and secret routes. The book was a critical and commercial success, hitting the bestseller lists and winning several literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. A TV miniseries adaptation, written and directed by Barry Jenkins, was released in May 2021.

[rockislandadultreads]

2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence: Nonfiction Longlist

Introducing a handful of nominees from the nonfiction longlist for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence! To see the entire longlist, click here.

We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian

On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children—with fateful consequences.

In the manner of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family and other classic works of investigative journalism, Roxanna Asgarian’s We Were Once a Family is a revelation of vulnerable lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produced this tragedy. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian became the first reporter to put the children’s birth families at the center of the story. We follow the author as she runs up against the intransigence of a state agency that removes tens of thousands of kids from homes each year in the name of child welfare, while often failing to consider alternatives. Her reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as children of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America’s most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.

The Talk by Darrin Bell

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are.

Through evocative illustrations and sharp humor, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles—and finding a voice through cartooning—Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbors, and police officers and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans and showcasing revealing insights and cartoons along the way, he brings us up to the moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. And now Bell must decide whether he and his own six-year-old son are ready to have The Talk.

Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar

“Latino” is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States, and also one of the most rapidly growing. Composed as a direct address to the young people who identify or have been classified as “Latino,” Our Migrant Souls is the first account of the historical and social forces that define Latino identity.

Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of “Latino” as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and gives voice to the anger and the hopes of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes and who have faced insult and division―a story as old as this country itself.

Tobar translates his experience as not only a journalist and novelist but also a mentor, a leader, and an educator. He interweaves his own story, and that of his parents’ migration to the United States from Guatemala, into his account of his journey across the country to uncover something expansive, inspiring, true, and alive about the meaning of “Latino” in the twenty-first century.

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

#nonfiction #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

[lboogie1906]

Bryan A. Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is a lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and clinical professor at NYU School of Law. Based in Montgomery, he has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system, especially children. He has helped achieve SCOTUS decisions that prohibit sentencing children under 18 to death or life imprisonment without parole. He has assisted in cases that have saved dozens of prisoners from the death penalty, advocated for poor people, and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice. He wrote the critically acclaimed memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. It was selected by Time magazine as one of the "10 Best Books of Nonfiction" for 2014 and was among the New York Times' "100 Notable Books" for the year. It won 2015, Andrew Carnegie Medal, for Excellence in Nonfiction and the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction. A film based on the book, called Just Mercy and starring Michael B. Jordan as him, premiered on September 6, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically on December 25, 2019. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck8KTlnrtEH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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