Lists and Lists and Lists
April is a tad bit busy! We’ve got Arab American Heritage Month, Deaf History Month, Autism Awareness Month, National Poetry Month, and I think I saw a social media post about Indie April for indie authors. That’s a lot of lists to keep up with, so I’ve just picked five of my favorites that coincide with these!
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. What and insanely good book. Heart wrenching. Vital. Timely. It will ruin you a little bit, but I cannot recommend it highly enough. As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.