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Baldwin's 1956 novel, his second, was daring for its time, depicting a young man deep into Paris's second expatriate movement following World War II as he grapples with his sexual identity. He is drawn both to his fiance and to a male Italian bartender with whom he begins an affair.
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"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
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Graywolf
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2017
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English
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A collection of works that opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police-a place where suspicion, violence and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on earth.
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Houghton Mifflin
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"This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns...
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Pantheon
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2017-
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English
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"From one of Japan's most notable manga artists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance that compares and contrasts the contemporary nature of gay tolerance in the East and the West. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares...
8) Quinceanera
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2006]
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Español
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As Magdalena's (Emily Rios) 15th birthday approaches her working class family prepares for the all important "Quinceanera"--a lavish coming of age celebration. To help with expenses, Magdalena is forced to wear a hand me down party dress and abandon her dream of arariving in a Hummer limosine. When her father discovers she's pregnant and refuses to believe the incredible truth--she's actually still a virgin--Magdalena moves in with her elderly Uncle...
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Oxford University Press
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[2018]
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English
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"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father...