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Ever since nineteen-year-old Juliet Palante told her family she's a lesbian, her mother has barely spoken to her. So when Juliet is awarded an internship with her favorite author, she leaves her home in the Bronx behind to spend the summer in Portland. There she discovers a world unlike any she's ever known, where she's welcomed just as she is, and where she discovers that she can truly love all of herself.
2) Kindred
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When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.
3) Hot comb
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"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story "Hot Comb" is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming "too white" in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In "Virgin Hair" taunts of "tender-headed" sting as much as the perm itself. It's a...