She Who Became the Sun – Shelly Parker-Chan

Blurb:In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate…

How Beautiful We Were – Imbolo Mbue #HowBeautifulWeWere #NetGalley

Trigger warning for descriptions of death, descriptions of violence, descriptions of child molestation, rape and slave trade. I got this copy from Netgalley for an honest review. Blurb: From the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American…