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There is a woman you may never have heard of called Ursula Vernon. This woman is, by far, my most favourite mind in all of humanity. Seriously, every sentence she types is pure entertainment, and she's an AMAZING

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Was also going to rec works about cultures in transition, or conflict, such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Those culture clashes can expose the differences in human 'narrative'.

I also like to read myths and folktales from non-Western traditions (Native American, ancient Japan, China, India, etc.) because these were developed to pass on different values and are based on different assumptions than we English-speaking folk are used to. Or Western sources but the original ones, not the ones molded to fit the narrative form we expect now. The Mabinogion is a good example.

Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Jazz and later works. These actually got too experimental for me because I couldn't follow them (Beloved was an earlier work and I love it).

Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses. I enjoy all Tan's work, but this one explores some of those same themes and styles as from Beloved that I find fascinating. Maybe not 'experimental' enough, dunno. Good reads, anyway! Not a waste of your time :-)

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. An experimental play or can be read as a set of poems (a 'choreopoem')