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May 24, 2021
Who are Americans, and what do they believe? How does our history shape our future? Six exceptional picture books explore our complicated, captivating country and offer meaningful perspectives on these vital questions about the great American experiment.
America, My Love, America, My Heart
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America, My Love, America, My Heart, Daria Peoples-Riley recalls growing up as “the only brown girl” at school, which made her feel like she wasn’t “free to be myself. . . . My country, America, didn’t feel free to me.” Her book is a glorious gift that will reassure children that they don’t have to change to accommodate people who don’t love every part of who they are.
Residents, businesses affected by Sibley evacuation over the weekend
Leah Henderson and her family live in a part of town that had to evacuate Sunday.
Henderson said they first found out about the evacuation by neighbors texting saying they had to leave. Not long after, she said they received the city s emergency text saying to evacuate.
Henderson and her family were able to stay with her sister out of town overnight. It was very stressful, especially with the dog in the backseat of not knowing when we were going to land or if we had time to stop and get food or when we would need clothes or toothbrushes, things like that. It was a lot of anxiety, said Henderson.
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Let these new and forthcoming titles welcome the changes to come in 2021.
Top, L to R: Milk Blood Heat (Grove Atlantic), Just As I Am (HarperCollins), We Too (The Feminist Press), Four Hundred Souls (One World/Random House). Bottom, L to R: This Close to Okay (Grand Central), Firekeeper s Daughter (Henry Holt + Co.), The Echoing Ida Collection (The Feminist Press), Love is an Ex-Country (Catapult). Illustration Credit: Courtesy CLG
We will never go back to a time before the devastating losses and surreal political theater seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The year 2020 changed us irreversibly, both as individuals and en masse. Let these books usher in the new year in all its complexity, with topics on grief, sexuality, history and more.