Recommendation-worthy stories by POC?

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I'll be having quite an amount of free time in the near future, and I've been planning on spending it lazying around and reading a good book. Do any of you have any recommendations that fit these specifications? - written by a person/people of color; - does not exoticize their home/country as if catering to an outsider viewpoint; - does not contain the usual stereotype of their people that is prevalent in other texts; - engaging enough to be read continuously in one-sitting. I apologize if that's weird/vague/specific but I've been reading a few POC-written books before I became killedbywork-busy and there seems to be similar conflicts in all of them that one book's protagonist seems indeterminate from another book's protag. I'm sure there'll be sweeping similarities in someone black growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood, or an Asian kid being born in America and having cultural problems between their experiences and their traditional parents' experiences, but every book can't ALL be about those, right? Also, engaging is a matter of milleage, I know, but if you like it, then I would like to try it as well. ^_^ A title, author and a simple summary would suffice, but a short review of what you think made it for you (without giving away anything, if possible :P) would be very very much appreciated. Thank you for your time!