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Category - Academic or campus novel: parts of Yabo are set at university in Buffalo NY, where Zen has an affair with her professor, a white Jamaican woman.

Layered. Poetic. Mythic. Interwoven lives of two people existing across centuries, from the middle passage to colonial times to present day USA. Black women, lesbians, and a fabulous intersex character named Jules. So good! #queerbooks

Love the way De Veaux uses underlined blanks as an alternative to pronouns for Jules, an intersex character.

When Dorsie's twins were born, one, the girl, was black. The other, the boy, was white.
She named the girl, Lilly. The boy, Coal.

Shango had not disappointed them. He was with them in this world. God of fire, thunder, lightning. He was watching over them. He would not leave them to fight their enemies alone. Yabo.

She gathered the glowing black seeds & flung them out into Great Water; where fish caught these seeds in their mouths & kissed them into the mouths of other fish, who passed & kissed them into mouths of more fish swimming beneath the floating hut as it made its way to the other side of Great Water.

This is what I'll be reading today. Just realized book discussion is tonight and I haven't even started it yet!