Goodreads asked Sarah McCraw Crow:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Sarah McCraw Crow I have a mix of old and new on my summer-reading list this year.

For new books, these are at the top of my list:
--Brit Bennett's novel The Vanishing Half
--Christina Clancy's debut novel The Second Home
--Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Book of Longing
--Sarah Sligar's debut novel Take Me Apart
--Anne Tyler's Redhead By the Side of the Road
--Elizabeth Wetmore's debut novel Valentine

Among (slightly) older books, I'm about halfway through Toni Morrison's essay collection The Source of Self-Regard, a big essay collection that came out in 2019, before she died. My VCFA advisor at the time recommended it, and I was struck anew by how prescient she was, writing about gender and race issues in the 80s, essays that could have been written today. Looking forward to getting back to it after I finish my grad program.

Other older books I want to get to:
--more Kate Atkinson! I want to fill in the gaps and read some of the books she wrote before Life After Life.
--Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women

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