![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything Alice leaves behind carries weight. As Alice’s memory declines, her 40-something daughter grieves by making lists of her mother’s possessions: “Seemingly random personal items-including but not limited to family mementos, magazine subscriptions, purses, Post-it notes-become vehicles to memory, proof of the life Alice lived after all that was lost…” writes Elinam Agbo in her review of the novel. When a widening crack in a community swimming pool forces it to close, the swimmers who logged daily laps there are unmoored, especially Alice, who has dementia and is a survivor of Japanese American internment camps. These stories show us “the moment we were broken and the moment we broke others.” ![]() It’s a deeply personal story yet Harper also challenges readers to wrestle with their own family histories, “untold origin stories that root us in actual time and place and peoples,” she writes in an excerpt of Fortune published in Sojourners. With transfixing storytelling and careful research, Harper traces 10 generations of beauty and brokenness as her ancestors confronted racist laws and the system that enforced them. Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World-And How to Repair It All, by Lisa Sharon Harper “Find those who tell you, Do not be afraid, yet stay close enough to tremble with you,” writes Cole Arthur Riley in This Here Flesh, “This is a love.” Here are 12 books from 2022 - nonfiction, memoirs, novels, and short stories - that we think are worth keeping close.ġ. ![]()
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