Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir

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Louis Chude-Sokei
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Moving from Jamacia to Africa to Los Angeles, Chude-Sokei's experiences in this new world and within a boisterous pan-African family teach him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness, but Blacknesses, in America.

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