One Life, Megan Rapinoe In One Life, Rapinoe embarks on a thoughtful and unapologetic discussion of social justice and politics. Raised in a conservative small town in northern California, the youngest of six, Rapinoe was four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball. Her parents encouraged her love for the game, but also urged her to volunteer at homeless shelters and food banks. Her passion for community engagement never wavered through high school or college, all the way up to 2016, when she took a knee during the national anthem in solidarity with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, to protest racial injustice and police brutality - the first high-profile white athlete to do so. The backlash was immediate, but it couldn't compare to the overwhelming support. Rapinoe became a force of social change, both on and off the field.
People's History of Heaven, Mathangi Subramanian Heaven is a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new, high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore. In this tight-knit community, five girls on the cusp of womanhood forge an unbreakable bond. When the local government threatens to demolish their tin shacks in order to build a shopping mall, the girls and their mothers refuse to be erased.
Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Jeanette Winterson The title of this memoir was a sentence her adopted mother delivered to Winterson when finally forced to acknowledge that her daughter was a lesbian. Adopted in order to fulfill her mother's desire to be a child missionary, Winterson writes with humor, pain, and honesty about life in a lower class British family that couldn't accept her This memoir charts the actual events behind Winterson's prize winning first novel, Oranges are not the Only Fruit.
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