Reading List – Our Father, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers
Persephone Theatre is pleased to partner with Turning the Tide Bookstore to create book lists for our performances.
Lists will be curated by the Turning the Tide staff, to act as a supplement to what you see on our stage. They will help to expand your knowledge about the themes, history and information within our productions.
All the books on the list are available for purchase through the Turning the Tide website: turning.ca.
The following books are chosen for Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers by Makambe K Simamba
List curated by Tracey Mitchell.
Children
I Am Every Good Thing (Fiction)
by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C James
Siha Tooskin Knows the Gifts of His People
by Charlene Bearhead, Wilson Bearhead and Chloe Bluebird Mustooch
Little Black Lives Matter (Local Author!)
by Khodi Dill
When We Say Black Lives Matter (Fiction)
by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Skin Again
by bell hooks
Young Adult
Felix Ever After (Fiction)
by Kacen Callender
Field Guide to the North American Teenager (Fiction)
by Ben Phillipe
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Long Way Down: Graphic Novel (Fiction)
by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together (Fiction)
by Renee Watson
Creeboy (Fiction)
by Teresa Wouters
Adults
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Angry Queer Somali Boy
by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
by Curtis Bunn
Brother (Fiction)
by David Chariandy
The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
by Desmond Cole
Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada
edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware
The Trees (Fiction)
by Percival Everett
Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity
by Jamil Jivani
After Black Lives Matter
by Cedric Johnson
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
by Eternity Martis
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present
by Robyn Maynard
Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story
by Sam McKegney
Shame On Me: an Anatomy of Race and Belonging
by Tessa McWatt
BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
by Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi
