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Dream Country, roots of this Conlict, Following ive Generations of one Family from a Virginia plantation to Liberia’s founding by freed slaves to a reverse migration 150 years later during the country’s brutal civil war. Dream Country is an ambitious novel, tackling colonialism, slavery and racist violence across centuries, and the way that an oppressed group — such as freed slaves — can replicate that oppression in a new environment.

In the end, Dream Country asks big questions and exposes new histories as it digs into the complexities of what Gibney calls “the ongoing, spiraling history of the African-african American encounter.” Here are the bestsellers for the week, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

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When refugees of Liberia’s civil war began arriving in Minnesota in the 1990s, they encountered the typical challenges of new immigrants, along with some unexpected resentment from Us-born blacks. Minneapolis writer Shannon Gibney’s new novel, traces the

Think of the late Bill Cunningham’s charming memoir,