Raven Jackson began out as a poet, a background that’s on the coronary heart of her eloquent, imagistic first function. All Filth Roads Style of Salt presents the lifetime of a Black girl within the rural South by elegantly composed vignettes. On paper, that method sounds too valuable to stay. …

Sierra Urich has a documentary-ready family history, with changes rippling through the generations. Her mother, Mitra, left Iran for college in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1979, just months before the Islamic revolution deposed the Shah and put the Ayatollah Khomeini in power. Mitra’s mother, Behjat, had to wait 16 years before …