November Book Club - Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's PUNCHING THE AIR

In this Book Club episode of the Unabridged podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara discuss Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's Punching the Air. After our Bookish Check-in, we share our opinions about the book and some favorite quotations, and then each of us offers another book we think would pair well with this YA novel in verse. Finally, we end by sharing some new favorites we've discovered lately.

 

Bookish Check-in

Ashley - Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji

Jen - Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom

Sara - Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow

 

Our Pairings

Ashley - Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage

Jen - Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce

Sara - Ellen Hopkins’s Burned

 

Mentioned in Episode

Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater

Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped

Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down

Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Nic Stone's Dear Martin

“Wait for It” from Hamilton

West Wing Weekly

Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series

Partners podcast

 

Give Me One - A Recent Favorite

Ashley - Kim’s Convenience on Netflix

Jen - In the Dark, most recent episode with Curtis Flowers

Sara - Hamilton

 

Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.

 

 

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