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Empty spaces / by Abel, Jordan,1985-author.;
Re-imagining James Fenimore Coopers 19th-century text 'The Last of the Mohicans' from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisgaa person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel's 'Empty Spaces' explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Abel is a queer Nisgaa writer from Vancouver, BC.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Ethnicity; Identity (Psychology); Indigenous peoples; Nature;

Pequeña monstruo / by Dapena, Beatriz.; Meléndez, Álex.;
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Subjects: Monsters; Identity (Psychology); Imagination;

The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people / by Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900.; Gladden, Samuel Lyndon,1967-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Satire.; Comedies.; English drama; Foundlings; Identity (Psychology);
© 2010., Broadview Press,

Me and the family tree / by Weatherford, Carole Boston,1956-; Corrin, Ashleigh.;
When she looks into a mirror, a young girl can see how she resembles various family members, as well as how she is unique.LSC
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Stories in rhyme.; Identity (Psychology); Families; African Americans;

My powerful hair / by Lindstrom, Carole,1964-; Littlebird, Steph.;
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
Subjects: Picture Books.; Hair; Identity (Psychology); Indigenous peoples;

Pick a colour : a novel / by Thammavongsa, Souvankham,1978-author.;
"From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name. Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange. As the day's work grinds on, the friction between Ning's two identities-as anonymous manicurist and brilliant observer of her own circumstances-will gather electric and crackling force, and at last demand a reckoning with the way the world of privilege looks at a woman like Ning. Told over a single day with razor-sharp precision and wit, Pick a Colour confirms Souvankham Thammavongsa's place as literature's premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations; Women immigrants; Women;

A new new me / by Oyeyemi, Helen,author.;
"A brilliant, playful new novel about identity and personality, from master storyteller Helen Oyeyemi. What if you had to share your body and life with six different versions of yourself? Kinga-Alojzia lives alone in Prague, but she's never lonely. A different personality takes up residence in her mind each day of the week. Every evening, that day's personality leaves written notes for the next day's self about what transpired. This all works quite well until the day that Kinga, who is Polish, becomes a Czech citizen. She wants to be a model member of her adopted country, but one of her selves seems to be plotting a takeover, scheming to rule them all. A captivating exploration of identity and multiplicity, A NEW NEW ME combines Helen Oyeyemi's crackling, exuberant prose with deep existential questions: What happens when your identities are at war with each other? How many versions of oneself can one self contain?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; Dissociative disorders; Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology);

Black Cherokee : a novel / by Downing, Antonio Michael,1975-author.;
"Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She's not just mixed in American binary sense of being a racial amalgamation of two races; she's a trinity of the three distinct racial identities that make up the identity politics of this continent. She's Part Black, White, and Indigenous (Native American), raised by her grandmother who is a Black descendent of the Cherokee freedmen. A history as rich as it is complicated, Cherokee freedmen were formerly enslaved Africans once owned by Cherokee elites. After Emancipation as well as the Trail of Tears, these former slaves were freed but their belonging to the Cherokee nation remained a point of controversy. Can people who once belonged to another people who were displaced claim birthright to that heritage? A novel in contemporary 1990s South Carolina, Antonio Michael Downing uses Ophelia's search for home and family to dramatize what it means to belong to a people when the terms of that belonging come at such a high price."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Families; Identity (Psychology); Multiracial people;

How not to drown in a glass of water / by Cruz, Angie,author.;
"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight. Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz's most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations; Middle-aged women;

Who am I? / by Phinn, Gervase.; Ross, Tony.;
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Subjects: Chameleons; Identity (Psychology); Jungle animals;
© 2012., Andersen Press,

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