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    A Year in Reading: May-lee Chai

    by May-lee Chai Dec 13, 2018 3 minutes

    2018 was my year of reading for #resistance. I’m grateful that there were so many amazing books that nourished my soul in more ways than one—I needed artistry to give me beauty, I needed social consciousness to give me fire, and I needed the innovations in craft and storytelling to inspire my own writing.

    I started off reading ‘s masterpiece, , which explores the effects of racism in the American “justice” system on a young African-American couple’s relationship after the husband is falsely

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