We're definitely judging these books by their covers.
They're also informative, engaging and rewarding reads.
No group has a more fraught relationship with hair than black American women. But a new anthology on women and hair barely acknowledges the elephant in the room.
"If you get traumatized reading a book," says best-selling author Azar Nafisi, "how will you live?"
A soldier, a ballerina, and a space museum manager make up this tear-jerking, post-Soviet epic.