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“Now Lila Knows ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Now Lila Knows is a tale of empathy that comes at the necessary cost, however delayed, of losing one’s innocence, of trading it for a harsher, more urgent reality. By encircling the reader in what they might think they know—about America, about the Caribbean, and the spaces in between—Elizabeth Nunez challenges us to answer for ourselves not only what we know, but also what we are prepared to do. The magic of this novel is that it opens a window to Black life in America through the eyes of an immigrant. A must read.” —Kevin Adonis Browne, OCM Bocas Prize winner, author of High Mas Lila Bonnard has left her island home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at Mayfield, and was giving CPR to a white woman who was on the verge of an opioid overdose.

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Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez was a compelling and timely read. It was a reflective read that interrogated accountability, racism in academia and social justice, the disconnect between American Blacks and the Caribbean and the power dynamics at play when someone chooses to speak up. The core of the plot revolves around Lila, a Caribbean immigrant who witnessed police murder a Black professor who they perceived as harming a white woman when he was in fact performing CPR and saving her life. Lila, has to reckon with her own ideas about race, identity and race relations in the U.S. as she ponders whether she should disclose to police what she witnessed.I really enjoyed this one because of how relevant it is. Nunez asks us to reckon with ourselves when we see injustices happen. Who is harmed and benefits when we are silent about injustices that happen to Black people?