welcome to my bookshelf
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2014), Saadawi's story focuses on the traumatic aftermath of war and occupation, how violence leads to more violence, and how no one is truly innocent.
Blair Braverman's memoir Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube (subtitled "Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North") is part love letter to dogsledding, part travelogue of an American in Norway, and part memoir of a woman grappling with the aftermath of sexual violence.
Sana Krasikov's debut novel, The Patriots, is an epic family saga stretching between Brooklyn and Moscow from the turn of the twentieth century to 2008.
"Lo-Melkhin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village looking for a wife. She that he chose of us would be a hero. She would give the others a life...."
This is not the 1,001 nights retelling of Disney's Aladdin; this is much darker.
What would you do if you found out the day you're going to die?
That's the premise of Chloe Benjamin's new novel The Immortalists, where four siblings - Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon - visit a psychic on the Lower East Side the summer of 1969.
The books I read in 2017....!
A man and woman separate, and agree to keep the separation private until they figure out what they're doing. The man travels to Greece on research; the woman moves in with someone new. The man's mother calls the woman about the man: has she heard from him? Could she go to Greece and find him? The woman goes to Greece, intending to find him and ask for a divorce.
Touch or technology? One trends forecaster, Sloane, seems to know the answer....
