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In What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage, Ava Johnson, a Black woman living with HIV, returns to her small hometown of Idlewild, Michigan, after leaving her life in Atlanta. Once there, she reconnects with her sister Joyce, falls in love with an old acquaintance, Eddie, and becomes involved with a women’s community group, transforming her outlook on her future. This novel includes depictions of gun violence, child abuse, substance addiction, sexual violence, and death by suicide.