I’m dropping a few titles off here from my Black History Month reading, which is ongoing.

1. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

My tenth grader recommended Things Fall Apart after she read it for English class. The book tells the story of an Ibo man who lived in a Nigerian village. “When [Okonkwo, the protagonist] walked, his heels hardly touched the ground and he seemed to walk on springs, as if he was going to pounce on somebody. And he did pounce on people quite often.”