{"id":45358,"date":"2022-10-17T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45358"},"modified":"2022-10-04T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:00:01","slug":"octobers-simply-held-fiction-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/octobers-simply-held-fiction-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"October’s Simply Held Fiction Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have rebranded our Best Sellers Club to now be called Simply Held<\/strong><\/em><\/a>! Have you joined Simply Held? If not, you\u2019re missing out! Four times a year, we choose fiction titles for Simply Held members to read from multiple categories: Graphic Novel, Diverse Debuts, Rainbow Reads, Overcoming Adversity, Historical Fiction, Out of this World, Stranger Things, International Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Juvenile Fiction.<\/p>\n

Diverse Debuts: Debut fiction novel by a BIPOC author.<\/p>\n

Graphic Novel: Fiction novel for adults of any subgenre with diverse characters depicted by color illustrations, sketches, and photographs.<\/p>\n

Historical Fiction: Historical fiction novel written by a BIPOC author with BIPOC main character(s).<\/p>\n

International Fiction: Fiction novel originally written in another language with BIPOC main character(s).<\/p>\n

Juvenile Fiction: Fiction chapter book with diversity, equity, or inclusion subject matter written for children 7-11<\/p>\n

Out of this World: Science fiction novel written by a BIPOC author with BIPOC main character(s).<\/p>\n

Overcoming Adversity: Fiction novel with diversity, equity, or inclusion subject matter written for adults.<\/p>\n

Rainbow reads: Fiction novel with LGBTQ+ main character(s).<\/p>\n

Stranger Things: Horror novel written by a BIPOC author with BIPOC main character(s).<\/p>\n

Young Adult Fiction: Fiction chapter book with diversity, equity, or inclusion subject matter written for children 14 and older.<\/p>\n

Below you will find information provided by the publishers on the titles we have picked for October.<\/p>\n

Graphic Novel:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Graphic Novel: Fiction novel for adults of any subgenre with diverse characters depicted by color illustrations, sketches, and photographs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Crema<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>by Johnnie Christmas and Dante Luiz with Ryan Ferrier & Alta Hrafney<\/p>\n

#1 New York Times Bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas and Prism Award Nominee Dante Luiz bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts, and coffee beans.<\/em><\/p>\n

Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost\u2026 also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme. Their world is turned upside down when the strange ghost of an old-world nobleman begs Esme to take his letter from New York City to a haunted coffee farm in Brazil, to reunite him with his lost love of a century ago. Bringing sinister tidings of unrequited love.<\/em><\/p>\n

Collects the ComiXology original digital graphic novel Crema in print for the first time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Diverse Debuts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diverse Debuts: Debut fiction novel by a BIPOC author.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What the Fireflies Knew<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kai Harris<\/p>\n

In the vein of Jesmyn Ward\u2019s Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidd\u2019s The Secret Life of Bees, a coming-of-age novel told by almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB), as she and her sister try to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather in the wake of their father\u2019s death and their mother\u2019s disappearance.<\/em><\/p>\n

An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB\u2019s eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has turned upside down.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her father has been labeled a fiend. Her mother\u2019s smile no longer reaches her eyes. Her sister, once her best friend, now feels like a stranger. Her grandfather is grumpy and silent. The white kids who live across the street are friendly, but only sometimes. And they\u2019re all keeping secrets. As KB vacillates between resentment, abandonment, and loneliness, she is forced to carve out a different identity for herself and find her own voice.<\/em><\/p>\n

A dazzling and moving novel about family, identity, and race, What the Fireflies Knew poignantly reveals that heartbreaking but necessary component of growing up\u2014the realization that loved ones can be flawed and that the perfect family we all dream of looks different up close.<\/em><\/p>\n

This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n