Information Act. The New York Times says the memoir is “a stirring family narrative that is narrowly focused but expansive in its resonance. It moves from the tobacco farms of 19th-century Cuba to Havana, Miami and, eventually, West New York, NJ, where Ferrer’s family relocated in the late 1960s after fleeing Castro’s revolution. This is a chronicle of how individual lives are upended by ‘history with a big H,’ as Ferrer puts it, the very force that became her life’s obsession.”

Weaving identity, politics, and self-acceptance, Zeldis captures a story that underscores challenges all too familiar within an intimate college setting. In the throes of antisemitism following World War II, two Vassar students forge a bond that highlights the pride and prejudices present in even the smallest of communities. Anne Bishop has brushed her Jewish identity aside in an attempt to fit in at college, turning a blind eye to the casual insults aimed at Jewish students. Her secret is threatened when she is enticed by another student, Delia, an unabashedly Jewish

outcast, into a quiet friendship. But will cruelty on Anne’s part cause their relationship to each other and their identities to falter? Echoing social and cultural issues of the past that remain ever prevalent in the world today, Zeldis powerfully accentuates the impact of community and friendship during moments of conflict in this timeless and moving tale.

In Moving Stones, DeVere Brody moves readers with her innovative retelling of Black and Ojibwe artist Edmonia Lewis’s life and career. Lewis was an internationally acclaimed sculptor in the 19th century whose work challenged the gender and racial restrictions of that era. DeVere Brody, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and African and African American Studies at Stanford University, examines Lewis’s legacy from a Black feminist and queer perspective, poetically articulating Lewis’s story through biographical, historical, and theoretical analysis. DeVere Brody explores Lewis’s craft as a marker of social change in this dynamic and engrossing book.