Dreams from My Father
Obama traces his Kansas and Kenyan families from Hawaii to Chicago community work to a first trip to Kenya.
2,053-word summary · 9 min read
Tag: identity
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Girl, Woman, Other
Twelve Black British women and girls link across years and cities, anchored by playwright Amma on her National Theatre premiere night.
2,202-word summary · 10 min read
Every Day
A wakes in a new teen body daily until falling for Rhiannon breaks rules.
2,215-word summary · 10 min read
The Undomestic Goddess
A burned out London lawyer flees a career mistake and takes a housekeeper job she cannot do.
2,943-word summary · 13 min read
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
2,878-word summary · 13 min read
Untamed
Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.
2,561-word summary · 11 min read
Crying in H Mart
Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.
2,337-word summary · 10 min read
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
1,971-word summary · 9 min read
Middlesex
Cal Stephanides traces three generations from Greece to Detroit to explain being intersex and becoming himself.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read