It's been five years since a hurricane ravaged Eliza Marino's life and home in her quiet town on the Jersey shore. Published by Bloomsbury YA on July 19, 2022Īn affecting and resonant YA novel in verse that explores family, community, the changing ocean tides, and what it means to fall in love with someone who sees the world in a different way. Check out the full list, but I also thought I’d highlight ten books I’m especially excited about.
So I created a Goodreads Listopia list of my own. And I wanted a running list of verse novels releasing in 2022, but I couldn’t find one. (It’s a step in the right direction, right?)Īnyway, I’ve been reading lots of verse novels lately since I’ve also been writing in verse. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.I haven’t done a Top Ten Tuesday Post in a while, but I thought I’d jump in with a list this week, even though I’m not doing the official list. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered.
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.
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