Con Papa / With Papá

Frederick Luis Aldama with Illustrations by Nicky Rodriguez

“With Papá, ‘I hold galaxies in my arms,’ the child tells us, and in these moving words, Aldama conveys the limitless boundaries of affection. In these vivid, lush images, we witness a father’s love fostering a child’s infinite imagination to soar.” —Cristina Herrera, Latinx Spaces

We Got By

A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland

Ric S. Sheffield

“We Got By will shake readers to the very bottoms of their souls.” —Allen Ballard, author of Breaching Jericho’s Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life

Our Sister Who Will Not Die

Stories

Rebecca Bernard

“One after the next [these] stories astonished me with their humanity and raw courage.” —Lee Conell

Good Medicine, Hard Times

Memoir of a Combat Physician in Iraq

Edward P. Horvath, MD

“The world would be a better place if we all treated each another with the concern, compassion and caring that Dr. Horvath prescribes.” —the Wall Street Journal

We Take Our Cities with Us

A Memoir

Sorayya Khan

“Elegant and richly remembered … A poignant tribute to the complex beauty of inherited histories.” —Publishers Weekly

Chi Boy

Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings

Keenan Norris

“As informative as it is inventive, as poetic as it is profound, Chi Boy is an absolute must-read.” —Jerald Walker, National Book Award finalist for How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

Engine Running

Essays

Cade Mason

“These essays travel the roads of memory and imagination in sentences as sharp as their setting’s horizon.” —Jill Talbot