December 16, 2021 In Fiction

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Poverty, squalor and oppression cannot keep people from finding meaning and even happiness in the solace of the written word in this heartfelt story of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge purges. It is, in the end, a hopeful and inspiring book.
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December 16, 2021 In Fiction

My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

These sensitive and heartbreaking but inspirational tales of courage, love and resistance to the vicissitudes of the world is of a literary quality that makes them a pleasure to read, in spite of the unhappy circumstances the characters must face.
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December 16, 2021 In Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

: Five young people who live centuries apart and in different cultures all find direction and meaning in a work of utter fantasy that reminds the reader of the unintended consequences of seeking utopia.
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