Her hopes for her future are threatened when she gets unexpectedly pregnant. Until something shifts and Cinnamon is suddenly haunted by a terrifying question: “Is this all there is?”ĭaisy Dunlap has had her own share of problems in her nineteen years on earth-she also has her own big dreams for a life that’s barely begun. Her life’s mantra is to be good, quiet, grateful. It may not look like much, but it’s more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. The book was published in October, 2021 by Atria Books.The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” ( The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn’t want to be found.Ĭinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible-a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town.
“We Are Not Like Them” is the first novel Piazza and Pride co-authored today. In a Moment With Margaret: discussion of other recent books that tackle race, including Zakiya Dalila Harris’ “The Other Black Girl,” Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and Emmanuel Acho’s “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Boy.” Christine Pride and Jo Piazza join the podcast to talk about writing this deeply moving book together, navigating their own obstacles to openly discussing race, and the value of exploring divisive issues through the storytelling lens of friendship, forgiveness, and what it takes for two different people to take their shared history into the future. For lifelong best friends Jen and Riley, the shooting is a deeply personal crisis that threatens to rip them apart for good. (3TV/CBS 5) - When an unarmed Black teenager is shot by police while walking home from school, the grief and outrage ripples through the city of Philadelphia in the novel “We Are Not Like Them.” The shooting calls for changes in policing, revealing deep divisions among those who experience systemic racism and those who deny it exists.
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