The Sweetest Remedy Format:Paperback every poignant verse can be

every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure-to-be-treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for / I believe enough to die for / That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise” (“Out of the huts of history’s shame / I rise / Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning” tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon / The day breaking for you

Publication Date: September 21

As Raina’s life spirals into a parade of Nani-approved bachelors and disastrous blind dates

Nafissa Thompson-Spires “has taken the best of what Toni Cade Bambara

” —Kevin Kwan

The Sweetest Remedy Format:Paperback every poignant verse can beWhen a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets an over the top family, a new love interest and discovers parts of herself she didnt know were missing in this engrossing novel from Jane Igharo, the acclaimed author of Ties That Tether. Hannah Bailey has never had a relationship with her father, the Nigerian businessman who had a fling with her white mother, so shes always felt clueless about part of her