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Little Orphan Áine

A story we like to tell ourselves

Green Guides

Two books to help your garden grow

The Gorta Mór

When the blight spread

Zalika Reid-Benta

Zalika Reid-Benta received the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Frying Plantain.

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Zalika Reid-Benta

The Western Front

Speaking unspoken truths September 2020
This is the book I wish I’d had in grad school when a white acquaintance made a quip about all of the “angry Black women” in our cohort of fifty (there were four of us). It’s the book I wish I’d had in high school when a white classmate demanded I “talk to those n — ,” kids he accused of stealing at a house…