Angels With Dirty Faces on Oregonian's Summer Reading List

The Oregonian included Walidah Imarisha's book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption in their summer reading list.

'Angels With Dirty Faces'

Activist, historian, educator, writer, humanities scholar: Portland’s Walidah Imarisha defies easy categorization, and so does her book “Angels With Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption,” which won the Oregon Book Awards’ 2017 Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction. It’s a must-read for anyone concerned about how readily we put our fellow Americans, particularly young black male Americans, behind bars. “America used to make cars. Now we make prisoners,” Imarisha writes in this compelling blend of personal narrative and reportage. She said by email, “I hope the book unsettles, in a way that allows for a questioning of what we think we know, and asking of questions with no easy answers.”

Angels with Dirty Faces is an Oregon Book Finalist

Walidah Imarisha's nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption is a finalist for the 2017 Oregon Book Awards.

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Walidah Writes Foreword For New Horror Anthology

Walidah wrote the foreword to a powerful new horror anthology, Sycorax's Daughters.

Sycorax's Daughters, a horror anthology of fiction & poetry by Black women, edited by Kinitra Brooks, Linda Addison, and Susan Morris will be out February 2017 from Cedar Grove Publishing!