May 23, 2024
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Fiction
May 8, 2024
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Nonfiction
The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
An evocation of the universal immigrant crisis is a lesson to the world: we are all guilty of the crimes that motivate refugees and of the impulse to shelter and redeem them. Powerful and revelatory.
April 17, 2024
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Fiction
Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chang
The plight of women after the communist takeover of China is the subject of this engaging story, based on the life of the author’s grandmother. The historic second-class status of women was not erased entirely by the social, cultural and political upheaval of Mao’s ascendancy.
February 28, 2024
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Fiction