Things She Could Never Have by Tehmina Khan

Nine-year-old Émilienne deals with the disappearance of her teacher, while narrators both alive and dead recount the history of the protest through prose that brings culture and characters together in a probing investigation.

The rock-and-roll aesthetic of the plot kerrangs through the swift and exciting prose.Īcting as witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe in the 1960s, this debut novel from English writer Gerty Dambury recalls the racial and class hierarchies that caused the massacre. The reader is drawn into the refugee’s experience and shares his agonizing odyssey via the graphic novel’s blunt yet poetic language.Ī mystery thriller translated from the French, Belgian author Paul Colize’s novel follows a journalist’s investigation into the connection between deaths of a rock-and-roll band’s members and another death separated by forty years. Bakari’s tight, multivocal verse makes frequent use of physical shape and space, the boundary-less flow of text hinting at the “new forms” that come from migration “without passport or apology.”īessora & Barroux Alpha: Abidjan to Parisīessora’s prose and Barroux’s illustrations join to illuminate the heart-wrenching journey of a West African refugee on a quest to reunite with his family in Paris. Ishaq Imruh Bakari Without Passport or Apologyĭrawing on experiences of migration and African diaspora, Caribbean-born writer and filmmaker Ishaq Imruh Bakari unfolds his new book of poetry across many places, invoking figures like Marcus Garvey and Stuart Hall along the way.

A thrilling story of exploitation and deceit, Children of Our Age is a powerful look at the immigrant experience. They become connected as their lives converge and their desires come into conflict. The book is filled with a wide variety of characters, with different threads leading back to their pasts in Poland and tying them to their present lives in London. Both deeply evocative and widely varied in style, the pieces lend themselves to deep investment and engagement, taking the reader through the twists and turns of navigating today’s world.Ĭhildren of Our Age is centered on the Polish community of London. Kazim Ali’s collection of eclectic poems examines the many facets of identity expected to arise during such a reflective eponymous activity.

Things She Could Never Have by Tehmina Khan