Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.
In “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” the astronomer C. Renée James writes about what we can learn from the more exotic shapes and sounds in outer space.
Tochi Eze’s novel, “This Kind of Trouble,” circles between the 1900s and the 2000s, and between Atlanta and Nigeria, in a sweeping story of colonialism and its aftershocks.