by DYB Team | May 24, 2026 | Asia, East Asia
Kikuji is a young Tokyo office worker, twenty-eight years old, both of his parents recently dead. He has been invited to a traditional tea ceremony hosted by Chikako Kurimoto, a woman with whom his late father once had a brief, badly ended affair. At the ceremony he...
by DYB Team | May 23, 2026 | West Africa
Okonkwo is one of the most respected men in Umuofia, a cluster of nine Igbo villages in what will eventually be called southeastern Nigeria. He is a wrestling champion. He is a yam farmer of standing. He has three wives, a barn full of seed yams, and a quietly...
by DYB Team | May 22, 2026 | BIPOC, Black Authors
The narrator has no name. He is telling his story from a basement somewhere in Harlem, in a room he has wired with 1,369 light bulbs, all running on stolen electricity, all turned on at once. How he got there is the novel. He grew up in the segregated South, won a...
by DYB Team | May 21, 2026 | BIPOC, Black Authors
The world is ending. Again. On a planet called the Stillness, which is anything but, civilizations rise and fall on a geological clock, every few centuries shattered by a Fifth Season of climate catastrophe and ash-blotted skies. Three women carry the story. A...
by DYB Team | May 20, 2026 | Africa
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, a place stitched together at the turn of the twentieth century by British colonial administrators who drew a line around several hundred ethnic and religious groups and called the result a country. This Fiction Called...
