12. The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
This historical fiction is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and definitely deserves to be on the list. It’s an imagined memoir of the first black explorer of American, a Moroccan slave Mustafa al-Zamori. Mustafa’s narrative gives a different perspective of the famous expedition across America.
“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.”
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