Friday Reads: Hard Times by Wayne Brady & Maurice Broaddus
For readers of Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Hard Times is a near-future time travel adventure about an estranged father and son who must bridge their turbulent history while trying to escape “The Farm,” a for-profit prison that exists outside of time. Inspired in part by Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th, the novel draws parallels between Jim Crow-era policies and today’s school-to-prison pipeline, confronting the systemic injustices of mass incarceration in the United States.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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