When her mom dies of cancer when Michelle is 25, she turns to Korean food as a way to mourn her.
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When her mom dies of cancer when Michelle is 25, she turns to Korean food as a way to mourn her.
It’s a slim memoir, but one of the best books I’ve read this year, hands down.
Stories like Geller’s are not often found in our literary landscape, which is why I am so grateful for this (very sad, very moving) memoir.
Men We Reaped is the story of author Jesmyn Ward’s life growing up Black in rural Mississippi and of five men in her life, including her brother, who died in the span of four years.
A beautiful and poetic paean to various animals and plants, plus a memoir about growing up as a brown girl in white America.
Many reviews have called the book “essential reading” for an election year — but I’ll go further than that. It’s essential reading to understand the America we live in today.
“History is lived, in our lands and in our bodies,” Jensen writes. She writes about trauma and abuse and whiteness and mass shootings and rural America and southern America and violent neighbors.
A gripping, powerful memoir of a refugee you won’t want to miss.
I challenged myself to read something out of my comfort zone; this 1933 classic (updated in 2020 with gorgeous illustrations) did not disappoint.
