Clay Cane
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"Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for an advanced copy.
This book made me feel every possible emotion in its 288 pages. I cried. I felt anxiety so intense that I was genuinely too nervous to go to the next page. Burn Down Master’s House" Read more of this review » |
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"Burn Down Master’s House by Clay Cane
I know it’s only January, but I’m already predicting this will be one of my favourite books of 2026. It’s a haunting and powerful historical novel about slavery, based on a compilation of true experiences crafted" Read more of this review » |
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"Incredible. This book is absolutely, gut-wrenchingly poetic in its prose, it was equally painful to go through as it was impossible to look away. These inspired retellings feel like a necessary work that should be explored by more. It forces discomfo"
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"Such a powerful and necessary read. Author Clay Cane is very direct about the anger of folx who've been marginalized and why it exists, without trying to make it easier to digest. What really stood out to me was how the book centers Black, queer iden"
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Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race
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“In March 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became the nineteen president of the United States. The hell that followed was the seeds of Jim Crow beginning to sprout with Democrats and Republicans enabling more white terror. As agreed on in the Compromise of 1877, federal troops abandoned the South. Democrats tightened their hold on the former Confederacy. Reconstruction, a time designed to repair the nation after war, was a closed chapter. It wasn’t only slavery that led to Black America starting from behind the rest of the nation; it was the Democratic and Republican failure of Reconstruction.”
― The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
― The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
“the attack and ultimate fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, which sparked the Civil War,18 Lincoln”
― The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
― The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
“supported the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, believed Roosevelt’s New Deal enslaved Black people,5 blasted the 1995 Million Man March while comparing the Nation of Islam to the Ku Klux Klan,6 and supported lifting sanctions against South Africa before apartheid had ended.”
― The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
― The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump





































