For the past few months we’ve been asking our team for their reading recommendations to celebrate the diversity of voices we enjoy listening to. Below, our fifth recommender Shannon McDermott offers reviews and provides links to purchase each of these books.
Shannon is a beloved member of our Marketing Committee and has been instrumental in helping TGLP establish a marketing strategy and foundational tools. We value her contributions and are excited to share her recommendations with you this month!
October 2021 reviews by
Shannon McDermott
Somebody’s Daughter
by Ashley C. Ford
Memoir
The way Ashley C. Ford writes captures how we see the world as kids, and how we reconcile it as adults. This book is beautiful, sad, inspiring, and deep.
If Beale Street Could Talk
by James Baldwin
Fiction
A love story set in 1970s Harlem. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad.
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