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Best Audiobooks of 2020 [in Library Journal]

08 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, British, European, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American, Vietnamese American

Best Audiobooks of 2020 by Stephanie Klose and Terry Hong This year’s top audiobooks, selected by LJ’s audio editor and reviewers, represent the best recorded literature published between November 2019 and December 2020. In a year that’s been like no other, these picks moved us, provided escape, and...

Deacon King Kong by James McBride [in Booklist]

19 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW On a cloudy September 1969 afternoon, septuagenarian widower Sportcoat – less respectfully dubbed Deacon King Kong for his addiction to the local moonshine – shot 19-year-old drug dealer Deems, then saved Deems’ life with an unseemly version of the Heimlich maneuver when Deems nearly...

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

26 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Biography, Black/African American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction

What writer and musician James McBride initially thought might take just six months to write required 14 long years to produce his now-almost-20-year-old debut title, The Color of Water. "Mommy" – McBride never calls her anything else – was never a cooperative subject: she shared her memories in her...

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