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							<title>María Alejandra Barrios Vélez&#8217;s Debut Novel Explores Grief &#038; Colombian Womanhood</title>
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															<description><![CDATA["The Waves Take You Home" by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez explores loss, family bonds, and finding your place in the world.  ]]></description>
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															<description><![CDATA[Afro-Latinx stories remain underrepresented and underappreciated in the Latinx community, the publishing industry, and beyond. Bronx-based Afro-Dominican writer Lorraine Avila might know this better than many. Not only is she unafraid to call out anti-Blackness in Latinidad, but also to place a Black girl front and center as she does in her debut young adult novel.]]></description>
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															<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s anything we can all agree on is that deep down, we&#8217;re all suckers for a good &#8216;ol love story. But like many other things in life, love comes in many forms, shapes, and sizes — and a book doesn&#8217;t have to include a romantic relationship in order to accurately explore or depict the]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Books can transport us someplace else—offering a much-needed respite from the rest of the world. They can teach us about other people&#8217;s joy, hurt, and life experiences, and in doing so, they ultimately change us and change how we view the world around us. But James Baldwin said it best in a 1963 interview for]]></description>
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															<description><![CDATA[Toni Morrison&#8217;s works were seminal in African-American literature but the overall impact she&#8217;s had on American literature is undeniable and irreplaceable. Morrison, who was 88 years old, died in 2019 of complications from pneumonia, but her legacy and impact live on. Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in]]></description>
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