I can’t think of a more appropriate book for our first spotlight recommendation. Excellence more than lives up to its name-sake. It’s an afro futuristic, action-fantasy tour de force with the soul-baring emotional vulnerability usually reserved for memoirs. This book fills the space between Rawlings’ Harry Potter and Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time . If you’re anything like me, this is the best kind of gift. A work of art so urgent and vital that it made me a little mad at myse