How to Love a Jamaican: StoriesSweeping from close knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In "Light Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands," an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up Love," a twin's chance sighting of his estranged brother the prodigal son of the

but when Vali's mother's counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town

communities

I enjoyed how Patrice McLaurin cleverly told the story of the African-American contribution in Have You Thanked an Inventor Today

Futureland has always just been home to Cam Walker

and the chase to capture and lynch him begins

Through these beautifully written verses

New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her profoundly human journey and shares her own hard lessons to inspire you to put your personal puzzle back together

But Josh has more than basketball in his blood

What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge

Jefferson has waiting for them after a job well done

Kiki has never surrendered her heart before

but the Regents who rule the Order won't let her