Books by April Reynolds and Complete Book Reviews

KNEE-DEEP IN WONDER
KNEE-DEEP IN WONDER
April Reynolds, Author . Metropolitan $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7346-1
"Children grow crooked when they live in a house that's unnatural," Queen Ester tells her grown, estranged daughter, Helene Strickland. Three generations of crooked children grow into complex women in Reynolds's debut novel, a...
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The Shape of Dreams
The Shape of Dreams
April Reynolds. Knopf, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-31686-3
Reynolds (Knee-Deep in Wonder) paints a vivid portrait of East Harlem during the Reagan era. At the outset, streetwise Matilda “Twin” Johnson, 57 and nearly six feet tall, discovers the corpse of Tyrone Jackson, a Black 12-year-old whose widowed...
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Sam with Ants in His Pants
Sam with Ants in His Pants
April Reynolds, illus. by Katie Kordesh. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5935-6460-8
Just before nap time one afternoon, Sam bounces around his Black-presenting family’s kitchen before being sent to bed. Shutting his bedroom door tight, Sam opens African Wildlife, his favorite book. But like the famous protagonist of Where the Wild...
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