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Toni’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Toni’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Toni Ann Johnson
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Fall Events
Virtual Events for LIGHT SKIN GONE to WASTE
Monday, October 17th, 5 PM EST; 2 PM PST
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Monday, October 17th, 5 PM EST; 2 PM PST
Cyrus Webb Amazon Live Amazon.com www.cyruswebbshow.live.
Monday, October 24th at 6 PM EST, 3 PM PST
Toni Ann Johnson in conversation with Roxane Gay
92nd St. Y virtual events – registration required
https://www.92ny.org/event/toni-ann-j...
Thursday, November 3rd at 7 PM EST, 4 PM PST
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This is a beautifully written important work that covers events in American history that aren't widely known but should be, given what has happened politically in 2024 and the consequences to immigrant communities.
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"Light Skin Gone to Waste is marketed as a story collection but could easily be considered a novel, with well-drawn characters whose lives intersect throughout. The storytelling is assured, the writing is poetic, and the book offers important insights"
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"I had a friend she grew up near Monroe, New York and I was really interested to read this book. It blew me away. The imagery that this author uses always feels like I am right in the moment with her. She’s an exceptional writer and I find myself rere"
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"But Where’s Home? by Toni Ann Johnson is a powerful, layered collection that captures both the quiet and overt ways racism, classism, and family dynamics shape a life. Through the lens of the Arrington family navigating an all-white neighborhood in 1"
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| I enjoyed this novel. I found it to be a slow burn and loved the way it built in complexity and intensity as it went along. I don't want to include spoilers, but there's an incident involving two young girls and SA, and it's engrossing and quite emot ...more | |
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| This was a beautifully written memoir that captures the complexity of difficult parent/child relationships. I was impressed with the author's honesty and vulnerability. While it's a story about inequities in the justice system, I found the heart of i ...more | |
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“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”
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“How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly.”
― The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
Catch the air
around the butterfly.”
― The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself”
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“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
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