24. Cynthia Leitich Smith, Blessed.

I liked Eternal. I did. But I was still stuck on the cliffhanger ending of Tantalize, and getting a prequel with an independent cast for the second volume was... well, a prequel with an independent cast. I wanted Quincie and Kiernan back, damnit. And I needed to know if (rot13) Dhvapvr jnf qnzarq be abg. Yes, I ( Read more... )

7. Jamaica Kincaid, LucyThis very short novel (though apparently heavily based on Kincaid's real life) follows Lucy, a young woman who moves from the Caribbean to New York City to become a nanny for a wealthy white family. There's little plot, and instead the book reads like a series of vignettes about Lucy's life, interspersed with memories of her ( Read more... )

18. Thomas King, "The One About Coyote Going West."
(Collected in An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 1998, among other places ( Read more... )