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Most Colorful Kid in the Class

“There’s no such place as Fillateens! You’re Chinese! My mommy said so!”

(shrug) “It’s PHILIPPINES and it’s real! I’m not lying!”

(multiple glares all around) “Fine, Fillateens! You’re it!”

(scattering)

I chase them all, my black hair like a flag waving proudly with each tag.

“You run good and talk good!”

“That’s right! Better get used to me and watch out!”

EB 1984. Too different for many then, and still for some now.

 

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence, into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers.

The Secrets We Kept

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.

Three Women

A mesmerizing work of narrative journalism, visceral, provocative, and haunting, about the sex lives and desires of three ordinary American women. Over the past eight years, Taddeo, an award-winning journalist and longtime contributor to New York and Esquire, embedded herself with three ordinary women to write this deeply immersive account of their erotic lives and longings. The result is shocking, powerful, and timely.