Aaliyah Bilal’s Temple Folk Offers Portraits of American Life

“That’s how that moment felt to me: like I was above the clouds finally, and the sun was on my skin again,” Aaliyah Bilal, author of Temple Folk, says of learning her manuscript had been acquired. That debut short story collection, now a finalist for the National Book Awards, depicts Black Muslim…

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