"Ancestral curses often 'explain' a group’s essential character... Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi inverts that conceit: What if a curse expressed all the ways that families, cities and nations fail to cohere?" Julian Lucas on KINTU in the NYT! nytimes.com/2019/01/07/boo…

"It’s an extremely American thing for a mother’s story to exist in isolation—socio-economically, racially—but how, then, to look at each other?" Ashley Nelson Levy on the compounded loneliness of pandemic parenting. lithub.com/what-will-the-…

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Shoutout to Community Bookstore! Listen to Hal: Read outside your borders! bit.ly/2nsxUhN

Read both of these wonderful books this week and can't recommend them enough.

a lyrically rich and devastating portrayal of adolescent struggle - our review of Andrés Barba's "Such Small Hands" zyzzyva.org/2017/04/11/suc…

Visiting parents in NJ, bringing @transitbks along for the trip!

Final installment #AfricanBookClub KINTU by Uganda's Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, just out from Oakland’s @TransitBks meetu.ps/32Vkqc

Tomorrow at 7pm: Andres Barba reads from his powerful novel, SUCH SMALL HANDS, with @_heathercleary! Join us! cc @transitbks

Hip hip! What a thoughtful review in the San Francisco Chronicle by R.O. Kwon. x.com/reesekwon/stat…

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi weighs in: 10 Essential African Novels Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

Monday swag thanks to @ShinyWhitePage. Looking forward to reading!

@ShinyWhitePage Grove Atlantic I actually like the ax. It feels like I'm wearing a Clue weapon ;)

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At long last! Aaron Bady's introduction to our edition of KINTU, which is officially out tomorrow. lithub.com/in-kintu-a-loo…

Thrilled to have an excerpt from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's KINTU featured in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading! electricliterature.com/a-ugandan-stor…

A final note on my Los Angeles Review of Books piece: if you can, please support independent book publishers such as @transitbks and their translators.