A Lucky Man: Stories | 
Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past.
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I can read 18 books on my 7-days holiday, right? 😁
It‘s Day 6 of the @bookriot #Riotgrams Challenge! Today‘s prompt: hardcover vs paperback! 📚❤️📚
pickJust a stellar collection of short stories by a new author. Brinkley excels at writing from the point of view of children living in insecure circumstances.
pickShort stories. I enjoyed it, though no one story really stuck out to me.
pickThis short story collection is a National Book Award finalist for fiction. Each of these stories focuses on a boy or man and a relationship—a boy‘s with his mother, a teen and his younger brother, a woman. Each story is thoughtful, and somewhat sad, as the man tries to figure out where he‘s gone wrong. Or if he‘s gone wrong. My favorite was the last, Clifton‘s Place. #nationalbookaward #nbafinalist #shortstories
pickThis was so fantastic. Such a great look into masculinity and toxicity, especially among Black men. Really well written and interesting.
pickThis is a hard one to review as I had some mixed feelings on the stories here. Really liked the one about ther brothers at the festival, the boy at the swimming party, and absolutely five+ stars to the last story about a neighborhood bar and it's owner. But a few other stories left me a little cold and detached. Overall though: a pick.
pickThis NBA longlisted collection of short stories centers on the lives of men of color in the inner city. It looks at their relationships to women - mothers, classmates, wives - at different times in their lives. While many of the stories were wrenching and honest, a few lacked a certain level of feeling - like listening to a piece of music played technically correct, but without love for the music. Overall, though, excellent writing. 4⭐️
The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for fiction! SO MANY GOOD BOOKS. Congratulations to these amazing books, as well as Gun Love, The Boatbuilder, and Where the Dead Sit Talking. 📚🎉📚
For some people there is a gap, for some a chasm, between the way they dream themselves and the way they are seen by others. That gap might be the truest measure of one's loneliness.
pickThe writing is beautiful and the stories are brutal and heartbreaking. Read them slowly
