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''Jaw-dropping . . . Read then pass it on'' STYLIST, Book of the Month''I was utterly floored by The Chain. It has the pace of a thriller and the weight of poetry'' EVIE WYLD''Urgent, unflinching and yet so full of love and nurture for women and womanhood'' JOSIE LONG''The Chain took my breath away from the first page and did not let go of me till the very last'' NIKITA GILLIn January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend''s life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and painfully betrayed. In this spellbinding memoir, she exposes one man''s control over many women and the trauma he left behind, and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite - and in spite of - him. Ex

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''Jaw-dropping . . . Read then pass it on'' STYLIST, Book of the Month''I was utterly floored by The Chain. It has the pace of a thriller and the weight of poetry'' EVIE WYLD''Urgent, unflinching and yet so full of love and nurture for women and womanhood'' JOSIE LONG''The Chain took my breath away from the first page and did not let go of me till the very last'' NIKITA GILLIn January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend''s life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and painfully betrayed. In this spellbinding memoir, she exposes one man''s control over many women and the trauma he left behind, and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite - and in spite of - him. Ex

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GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as 'lively and vital', editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be in the US is under attack. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant USA come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multi-vocal portrait of America now.Essays from:Porochista Khakpour; Nicole Dennis-Benn; Rahawa Haile; Teju Cole; Priya Minhas; Walé Oyéjidé; Fatimah Asghar; Tejal Rao; Maeve Higgins; Krutika Mallikarjuna; Jim St. Germain; Jenny Zhang; Chigozie Obioma; Alexander Chee; Yann Demange; Jean Hannah Edelstein; Chimene Suleyman; Basim Usmani; Daniel José Older; Adrián Villar Rojas; Sebastián Villar Rojas; Dani Fernandez; Fatima Farheen Mirza; Susanne Ramírez de Arellano; Mona Chalabi; Jade Chang

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