We Are Not Like Them by Christina Pride & Jo PiazzaCondition: New Told from alternating perspectives, this novel follows two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist

in which death by AIDS has become a currency in the hands of the morally bereft and the politically expedient

as she is dumped unceremoniously on a plot in the dark

A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book

only to discover he doesn’t have enough money on him and he has to borrow what he needs from Cash

Moving between Kathmandu

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Jen is in freefall as her future

It is 1939

the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition

After hitting rock bottom

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but who was also frank