Don't Call Us Dead Aisha Muharrar Yunjae will have the chance

Yunjae will have the chance to step outside of every comfort zone he has created to perhaps become the hero he never thought he would be

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McMillan approaches every piece with enduring candor

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)

Don't Call Us Dead Aisha Muharrar Yunjae will have the chanceFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection [Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy. The New Yorker Award winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place