This week, fiction reader Lauren Garretson is reading All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks, Long Division by Kiese Laymon, Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction by Nalo Hopkinson, and Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur.
Lauren is an Afrofuturist writer from West Virginia. Currently, she is an MFA candidate for Fiction at Virginia Tech.
The Minnesota Review 