Asale Angel-Ajani is a writer and Professor at The City College of New York. She’s the author of the nonfiction books Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade and Intimate: Essays on Racial Terror. She has held residencies at Millay, Djerassi, and Playa, and is an alum of VONA and Tin House. A Country You Can Leave is her first novel.
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An incisive, lyrical exploration of one family’s history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging. Asale Angel-Ajani and her twin, the only Black children in a working-class white family, were shuffled between ... SEE MORE