Speaking of Summer Color Purple and the power of reading

and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit

to survive as an undocumented immigrant

Spring Peas & Creamy Burrata

James Ransome

and--even in its unsparing brutality--full of love

Speaking of Summer Color Purple and the power of readingOn a cold December evening, Autumn Spencers twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must pursue the search for her sister all on her own. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. But the loss becomes too