Every Body Looking

Every Body LookingBy: Candice Iloh A Finalist for the National Book Award When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, its the first time shes ever been so far from her familyand the first time that shes been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her pasther mothers struggle with addiction, her

and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016

two thirds of whom had never seen a play before

she discovers that her neighborhood

Kurzman re-creates the intimate circumstances and great historic events that culminated in that terrible night

Delaney opens a window into the world of the merchant marine

In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface

that of an adrenaline junky

s drugged with chloroform

His road has been lonely

“An arresting visual experience

” —Nicholas Kristof