Gourevitch's unforgettable We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority: close to a million people murdered by their neighbors in one hundred days. Now Gourevitch brings us a staggeringly vivid exploration of how killers and survivors live together again in the same communities, grappling with seemingly impossible burdens of memory and forgetting, denial and confession, vengefulness and forgiveness.

As a little boy, Pacifique Irankunda lived through the thirteen-year civil war in Burundi. From his own memories and those of his family, including his extraordinary mother, he recounts surviving vicious conflict between ethnic divisions through ingenious acts of kindness, and how a history of colonialism destroyed Burundi’s once-rich culture and traditions.

Invisible Child follows the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, this book follows Dasani and her tight-knit family as they move from shelter to shelter, vividly illuminating some of the most critical issues in contemporary America through the life of one remarkable girl.

Owed is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre and form—from elegy and ode to origin myth—these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.

In HULL, Xandria Phillips explores emotional impacts of colonialism and racism on the Black queer body and the present-day emotional impacts of enslavement in urban, rural, and international settings. Hull is lyrical, layered, history-ridden, experimental, textured, adorned, ecstatic, and emotionally investigative.

Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally experimental collection steeped in Somali narrative tradition, Osman gives voice to the experiences and traumas of displaced people over multiple generations. The characters in these poems encounter exile's strangeness while processing the profoundly isolating experience of knowing that that once you are sent out of Eden, you can't go back.