Kaitlin Jefferys Contributor

Akwaeke Emezi’s highly anticipated memoir Dear Senthuran is a musing on identity, displacement, and trauma. 

In Just As I Am, Cicely Tyson reflects on her extraordinary career as an actress. 

Part memoir, part examination of motherhood, The Wild Track follows Margaret on her five-year journey to adopting a child. But pivotally, the book asks, ‘what makes any woman want to become a mother?’ 

The Butterfly Lampshade, by New York Times bestselling author Aimee Bender, is a poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, and mental illness. 

Brining to the forefront topics that were off-limits to Regency-era novelists, Reputation is a feminist twist on the classic novel. From alcohol to sex, Reputation touches upon all that would once have been considered scandalous.

A review of Toni Morrison's debut novel, The Bluest Eye (1970)