Your Name Is a Song

Your Name Is a SongFrustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with her

the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice

on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

bittersweet

the pull of memory

Using the myth of Eurydice as a structure

covered in vegetables and dirt

A younger sister whose grief has become all-consuming

and a glamorous group of friends

But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she'd been implicitly taught to worship--a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people

from a pioneering West African food writer

Portrait of a Thief: A Novel

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