A Florida Man Deception, Neurodivergent Women in Pop Culture, and More New Nonfiction

The name of this alone sounds ridiculous. For this, you’ll need a lot of the usual cake-baking ingredients, as well as ripe bananas, coconut oil, chopped nuts, maple syrup, honey, lemon juice, and powdered sugar.

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In these essays, Good tells the truth about the Indigenous experience in Canada. Looking at both historical and contemporary issues, she speaks on everything from unhonored treaties to cultural appropriation, to flat-out racism. Canada’s current treatment of its Indigenous population and how it values their lives are explored, as well as how to right the wrongs of the past and the present.

I don’t know who needs to read this, but this has to become a docuseries on Netflix. It tells how Officer Jeff Babauta infiltrates the world of illegal alligator poaching by — get this — becoming a Florida Man. He develops a pony-tailed, whiskey-laden alter ego and gets in good with people who deal in glow-in-the-dark alligators and other Florida-specific things I’m sure you didn’t realize you’d be reading about today. But as Officer Babauta soon learns, many of the so-called criminals he’s gone undercover to catch are really just trying to make ends meet under the crushing weight of capitalism.

Propelled by feminist movements around the world, Cristina Rivera Garza wrote a request to the attorney general concerning her sister Lilian, who was murdered 29 years ago in Mexico City. Garza’s family is certain her sister’s abusive boyfriend was the culprit, but he was never brought to justice. Here, Garza brings her sister’s last summer back to life while also confronting the culture that normalized violence against women, allowing for such a tragedy.

For the longest time, people thought of autism as only applicable to boys. Times have changed, and people’s understanding has gotten a lot better, but there is still a ways to go. In The Autists, Törnvall hopes to help people see another side of autism, specifically another side of women on the spectrum. She uses her own experiences as an autistic person to explore things like pop culture, myth, and society through the lens of autistic womanhood. In doing so, she shows all there is to gain from stepping outside of the neurotypical perspective.