Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month, celebrated every November, honors the traditions, languages, and contributions of Indigenous peoples. This November, City of Asylum Bookstore has curated a selection of reading recommendations featuring Indigenous voices. 

Celebrating Indigenous American Voices

Shop a selection of some of this year's most exciting works by Indigenous authors, including new releases like Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms.

Indigenous Voices for Young Readers

Even the most powerful voices start small! Shop these works by Indigenous authors—including Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry—written with young readers in mind. 

Coming Up at City of Asylum:

World Literature with Alain Mabanckou

Sunday, December 7 @ 3:00 PM

The final World Literature reading of 2025 features author Alain Mabanckou, who shares his moving and exuberant novel, Dealing with the Dead. Praised by The Guardian for its blend of “magic realism, crime, mythology and satire,” the work is a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history from one of Africa’s greatest living writers. 

“Ever since I read Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou’s novel African Psycho, published here in 2007, I’ve been hooked. His books—Memoirs of a Porcupine, Broken Glass, The Death of Comrade President, among others—are twisted, scathing, omnivorous, and have earned him a cult-like following. His latest, Dealing with the Dead, again revels in his morbid but irrepressible spirit to explore vital questions of politics and history, life and death.” —Anderson Tepper

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