{"id":968,"date":"2022-09-22T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/?p=968"},"modified":"2022-09-22T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:12:47","slug":"discover-narrative-non-fiction-with-darian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/2022\/09\/22\/discover-narrative-non-fiction-with-darian\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Narrative Non-Fiction with Darian!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All of these books are available in the Uni High Library!<\/p>\n

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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives<\/em><\/strong> by Dashka Slater (364.15 Sl151fi)<\/p>\n

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One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight.<\/p>\n

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption<\/em><\/strong> by Bryan Stevenson (345.73 St481ju)
\n\"\"Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned. Just Mercy<\/em> tells the story of EJI, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation\u2019s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison, to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice. One of EJI\u2019s first clients was Walter McMillian, a young Black man who was sentenced to die for the murder of a young white woman that he didn\u2019t commit. The case exemplifies how the death penalty in America is a direct descendant of lynching \u2014 a system that treats the rich and guilty better than the poor and innocent.<\/p>\n

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Escape from Camp 14: One Man\u2019s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West<\/em><\/strong> by Blaine Harden (365 H217es)<\/p>\n

\"\"North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14<\/em>, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin’s life unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden’s harrowing narrative of Shin’s life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world’s darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.<\/p>\n

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Hiroshima<\/em><\/strong> by John Hersey (940.5425 H439h2001)<\/p>\n

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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey’s journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic “that stirs the conscience of humanity”.<\/p>\n

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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir<\/em><\/strong> by Thi Bui (GN B8681be)<\/p>\n

\"\"An intimate look at one family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. At the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent \u2014 the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home.<\/p>\n

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Gender Queer<\/em><\/strong> by Maia Kobabe (GN K791ge)<\/p>\n

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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e\/em\/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer<\/em> is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer<\/em> is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity\u2014what it means and how to think about it\u2014for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.<\/p>\n

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They Called Us Enemy<\/em><\/strong> by George Takei (GN T1396t)<\/p>\n

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Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father’s — and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy<\/em>\u00a0is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.<\/p>\n

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Banned Book Club<\/em><\/strong> by Kim Hyun Sook (GN So62ba)<\/p>\n

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When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983, she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family\u2019s restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This was during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick<\/em>, Hamlet<\/em>, and The Scarlet Letter<\/em>. Instead, she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in. In Banned Book Club<\/em>, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.<\/p>\n

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Between the World and Me<\/em><\/strong> by Ta-Nehisi Coates (305.800973 C632b)<\/p>\n

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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation\u2019s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of \u201crace,\u201d a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men\u2014bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me\u00a0<\/em>is Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son\u2014and readers\u2014the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children\u2019s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage,\u00a0Between the World and Me\u00a0<\/em>clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.<\/p>\n

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Borders<\/em><\/strong> by Thomas King (GN K587bo)<\/p>\n

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On a trip to visit his older sister, who has moved away from the family home on the reserve to Salt Lake City, a young boy and his mother are posed a simple question with a not-so-simple answer. Are you Canadian, the border guards ask, or American? \u201cBlackfoot.\u201d And when border guards will not accept their citizenship, mother and son wind up trapped in an all-too-real limbo between nations that do not recognize who they are. Borders<\/em> explores themes of identity and belonging, and is a poignant depiction of the significance of a nation\u2019s physical borders from an Indigenous perspective.<\/p>\n

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Shout: A Poetry Memoir<\/em><\/strong> by Laurie Halse Anderson (811.6 An2394sh)<\/p>\n

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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel\u00a0Speak<\/em>was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #metoo and #timesup, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts.\u00a0SHOUT<\/em>\u00a0speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice\u2014and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n

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All Boys Aren\u2019t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto<\/em><\/strong> by George M. Johnson (306.7662 J6322al)<\/p>\n

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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren’t Blue<\/em> covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson’s emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.<\/p>\n

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood<\/em><\/strong> by Marjane Satrapi (GN Sa83p)<\/p>\n

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Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah\u2019s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran\u2019s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis<\/em> paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane\u2019s child\u2019s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis<\/em> is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.<\/p>\n

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Boots on the Ground: America\u2019s War in Vietnam<\/em><\/strong> by Elizabeth Partridge (959.704 P2588bo)<\/p>\n

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In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. The history of this era is complex, the cultural impact extraordinary. But it’s the personal stories of eight people–six American soldiers, one American nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee — that form the heartbeat of Boots on the Ground. From dense jungles and terrifying firefights to chaotic medic rescues and evacuations, each individual’s story reveals a different facet of the war and moves readers forward in time. Alternating with these chapters are profiles of key American leaders and events, reminding readers what was happening at home, including Kent State, Woodstock, and Watergate.<\/p>\n

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#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women<\/em><\/strong> by Mary Beth Leatherdale and Lisa Charleyboy (971.00497 N849)<\/p>\n

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Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. #NotYourPrincess<\/em>\u00a0presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.<\/p>\n

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Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction<\/em><\/strong> by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (GN K928he)<\/p>\n

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In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka’s teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett’s family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett’s life. His father is a mystery — Jarrett doesn’t know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents — two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along. Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what’s going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father. Hey, Kiddo<\/em> is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.<\/p>\n

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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers<\/em><\/strong> by Deborah Heiligman (759.9492 H3636v)<\/p>\n

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The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers’ lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend, Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a tale of two lives intertwined and the love of the Van Gogh brothers.<\/p>\n

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Be sure to checkout Darian’s recommendations<\/a> for movies, music, and podcasts that also employ narrative non-fiction techniques!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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