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April Selections--Recommended Reading

Please post in the comments any books you would recommend for our students to read.  If you can also provide a short summary of the book (cut and paste from Amazon) or your own thoughts from reading it, that would be great! Example: WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal Publishers Weekly  Top 10 of 2017   "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's  Sing, Unburied, Sing  is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual and song...Ward's writing throbs with life, grief, and love, and this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it." (Buzzfeed)  In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning  Salvage the Bones , this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural 21st-century America. An intimate portrait