Class Lessons: Stories of Vulnerable Youth by Lucy E.M. Black

Class Lessons: Stories of Vulnerable Youth by Lucy E.M. Black is a stunning collection. Fictionalized to protect the identities of its characters, this is a gritty account of vulnerable youth in high school by a real-life career educator and author, Lucy Black. Black has brought her career’s worth of experience into Class Lessons. We meet …

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Stella’s Carpet by Lucy E.M. Black

Exploring the intergenerational consequences of trauma, including those of a Holocaust survivor and a woman imprisoned during the Iranian Revolution, Stella’s Carpet weaves together the overlapping lives of those stepping outside the shadows of their own harrowing histories to make conscious decisions about how they will choose to live while forging new understandings of family, forgiveness and reconciliation.

A woman in profile wearing an ornate crown with a veil of gems.

The Phoenix Crown: A Novel

If you liked Janie Chang’s previous book, The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War and Forbidden Love, you’ll love The Phoenix Crown with main character Suling, who is like the long-lost twin of Pauline with one crucial difference, and there are cameos by characters from Porcelain Moon in La Pagode in Paris, France.