Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig

'Ashes and Stones' by Allyson Shaw: “‘Ashes and Stones’ is a moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and modern cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.” (January)Ģ. (I watched a lot of TV in 2022, but my tracker doesn’t have a way to show you which programs they were! Still, you can check out my profile here.)ġ. What movies I watched in 2022 (the first row, plus the second row to “The Conjuring”) It’s by no means a complete list, just some things I’ve been recommending a lot lately. In the list below, several of the authors are people I have some connection with, and I’m excited and proud to see these books birthed into the world. This year, I find myself more excited by what’s on the horizon, particularly in terms of books.įor one thing, I’ll have a book of my own coming out in the fall of 2023, about San Francisco’s cemeteries and just how many were left behind in the great relocation to Colma.Īnd for another, many of my friends and acquaintances have new books arriving in 2023. (Nov.Often, I like to do a recap of what I’ve read and watched over the course of the year, or I try to pick some of my favorites. This layered novel tells more than it shows, but it’s well worth listening to. Akpan writes as much to educate as to entertain, adding lengthy and lucid historical passages with footnotes to source material along with excerpts from the book Ekong is editing. Throughout, he strives to bear witness to the atrocities and lingering animosities of the Biafran War among compatriots living in the Bronx, in New Jersey, and in his village back home. While fighting for underrepresented authors and against bloodthirsty bedbugs, Ekong learns that first impressions don’t always reveal true character.

The all-white publishing house greets Ekong with friendly overtures, but his diverse neighbors in Hell’s Kitchen offer only icy stares, leading him to take refuge in Times Square and at Starbucks. Ekong, a member of Annang tribe (a “minority of minorities”), has his visa denied twice before finally securing entry with help from his stateside editor-in-chief.

publisher and edit an anthology of stories about Nigeria’s civil war of the late 1960s. Ekong Otis Udousoro has a four-month fellowship in 2016 to understudy with a small U.S. Akpan’s ambitious debut novel (after the collection Say You’re One of Them) follows a Nigerian writer in New York City as he navigates myriad permutations of racism and prejudice.

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig