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We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to ...more

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“Look at this, look at that, she must have been such a good girl this year! Unlike all those rotten poor children staring at empty trees who must have deserved it, bad because they were poor, poor because they were bad.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“This moment is not pain, not hysteria, not crying. It is your insides turning to cold stones. It is utter confusion paired with knowing. Gone is the luxury of growing up slowly. So begins the brutal awakening.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

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“She does not have to wait for a man to find himself or his courage.”
― Maisy Card, These Ghosts are Family

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“This collection reveals a universal truth: there’s nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.”
― Tess Sharpe, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

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“Because the people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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