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"  Precious Mettle  Precious Williams&amp;#039; memoir, Color Blind (Bloomsbury), recounts how this London-born daughter of a Nigerian princess came to be raised by an elderly white woman in an English housing project. Growing up, she struggled with race and class issues, being renamed Anita, and getting raped. &amp;quot;Anita is the elephant in the room,&amp;quot; Williams declares, while &amp;quot;Precious...[is] the writer, the grown woman, the adventurer.&amp;quot; Love in a Time of Choler  No Place for Heroes (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Colombian novelist Laura Restrepo, follows a mother and son from Bogot\u00E1 to Buenos Aires to find the man who was her lover during Argentina&amp;#039;s Dirty War and the father of the nowgrown boy. Their search becomes the springboard for a politically astute, profoundly humane story of revolutionary love, personal loss, and the promise of reconciliation. To Have and Have Not  In What We Have (Gotham), Amy Boesky conveys what it&amp;#039;s been like for the women in her family\u2014 generations of whom have died young from ovarian cancer\u2014to live with risk. As a &amp;quot;previvor&amp;quot; (currently cancer-free but highly predisposed), Boesky chooses to move past her dread of approaching age 35, when doctors suggest she and her sisters have preventive surgery, and to live life deeply, daily, fully. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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