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4. James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” — an essay where family grief, Harlem, and American racism intersect into a sharp and uncomfortable clarity that’s impossible to ignore.
Sabine Carys • 12 Days of Re-Enchanting Your World
The act severs her mysterious tie to the past and she’s thrust forward in time—but not all of her makes it back. That arm. “I couldn’t let her come back whole,” said Butler in a Callaloo interview. “Antebellum slavery didn’t leave people quite whole.”
Joel J Miller • Scars of the Past: Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
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☆ a short stay in hell , steven l. peck
☆ the hearing trumpet , leonora carrington
☆ the left hand of darkness , ursula k. le guin
☆ black swans , eve babitz
☆ drive your plow over the bones of the dead , olga tokarczuk
☆ slow days, fast company , eve babitz
☆ the book of all loves , agustín fernández mallo
Sabine Carys • Some Things I Loved This Year
7. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights — a love story that refuses to end at death. haunting isn’t just a ghost at the window, but an obsession that reshapes generations, long after the lovers are gone.