A moving meditation on trauma, grief, love, and what it means to mourn for people who are still alive and places that still exist, but not as they once were.
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A moving meditation on trauma, grief, love, and what it means to mourn for people who are still alive and places that still exist, but not as they once were.
If you read one book this summer, let it be this one.
You may remember Otsuka from her debut novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, about the life of a Japanese-American family during World War II. This follow up is not as critically praised as the first, but captures a wider swath of experience.
Okay, I rarely read romance novels but I'm about to recommend this with all my heart.
If you want to know what everyone is talking about, read this. If you don't care about the "zeitgeist" or one woman's idea of feminism, maybe skip.
The core of the story is about persecution and hysteria over women's autonomy, and McKay does a wondrous job of crafting a New York where magic lingers just under the surface.
Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, Mabanckou tells the tale of Moses, an orphan in the Congo Republic. He escapes the Congo orphanage to Pointe-Noire, where he falls in with thieves, and then leaves them to work for a kind brothel owner.
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.
