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Now showing — Half of a Yellow Sun · 5 works

  • Certain Women Film · 2010s

    Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Glad...

    LongingPowerAfter-hours
  • Homegoing Books · 2010s

    Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Only Yesterday Anime · 1990s

    Aoba Riku has just transferred to a new high school because of his father's job, and things aren't quite what he expected. The headmaster's secretary controls the school while espousing the virtues of academic freedom, the teachers are even stranger than normal teachers, and half the student body is walking around w...

    SurveillanceFolkloreIdentity
  • Half of a Yellow Sun Books · 2000s

    Three lives intertwined during the Nigerian-Biafran War. Love, loyalty, and the cost of nationhood.

    LongingMemoryMigration
  • Nostalgic electronic music that sounds like half-remembered childhood. Hauntology as genre.

    FolkloreMemoryAfter-hours
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