Black Cloud Rising BOTY_2025 • Snickerdoodle Macarons

• Snickerdoodle Macarons

Created entirely by undocumented or formerly undocumented migrants

aqua blue and black inks

When her brother became institutionalized

only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient

Black Cloud Rising BOTY_2025 • Snickerdoodle MacaronsAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but