Books play a quintessential role in every student’s life by introducing them to a world of imagination, providing their reading, writing and speaking skills. Also books boost memory and intelligence. The importance of books in our life cannot be undermined for they not only help in broadening our horizons but also act of connecting us with the outer world. They function as survival skills, they influence us and leaves impact on us. Here are some of the books to leave impact on us and make us cry and also leave us with a good feeling.
Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert
A gorgeously illustrated retrospective of the Black folk artist died in 2021, plus a wrenching memoir of the Jim Crow South. A peer of the great Mose Tolliver, Rembert grew up in rural Cuthbert, Georgia. His vibrant canvases evoke the honky-tonks of Hamilton Avenue, convicts laboring in sun-scorched fields.
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot
This book is about chronicling Dasani’s life in 2012, having met the 11-year old girl in the homeless shelter she’d move to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Elliot writes unsparingly about the realities of life in shelters and the trajectory of children in that setting. Through the history of one family. Elliot examine how racial and economic disparities produce generational poverty. She puts a face to statics and, in doing so, challenges our assumptions about poverty and resilience.
Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
A historian vividly recreates a fateful crime in 1722, when two white men assaulted an Indigenous hunter in Pennsylvania, just as British colonists and Iroquois leaders were sketching a treaty for an uneasy peace. From the aftermath of this little-known event emerges fixed notions of crime and punishment, the burning questions of whose thumb commands the scale of justice. It’s equal parts true-crime page-turner and an essential contribution to the canon of our history.
Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss
In her lithe, unsparing fifth collection, poet Diane Seuss reimagines the sonnet as conversational confession, dispensing with strictures of rhyme to probe the burdens of love and selfhood, the compulsion to see art as whole, with images playfully plucked from everyday life. “Intimacy unhinged”, she writes. “Believe me, I didn’t want it anymore. Who in their/right mind? And then it came like an ice cream truck/with its weird tinkling music, its sweet frost”.
The Netanyahu by Joshua Cohen
The Netanyahu turns the conventions of the campus novel on its head, as the narrator- Ruben Blum, an elderly American historians retired from Corbin University, in the bucolic hinterland of New York- looks back on a pivotal year at the end of the Eisenhower administration. When he played host to an exiled Israeli scholar whose family would transform the fate of the Middle East. Some dreams are held to be prophecy, while others are held to be nonsense, which is prophecy yet unmanifest… those waking dreams indistinguishable from yearning.
