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Jan.04.2008
The Dim Sum of All Things is about a third-generation Chinese-American receptionist whose parents’ assimilation efforts have succeeded in convincing her she is not Chinese at all. The protagonist denies her affinity for Peking duck, mooncakes, and Hello Kitty toys, occasionally gleaning tidbits of...
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Jan.04.2008
When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes helped launch and legitimate a decade-long publishing phenomenon—the memoir of abused childhood. Rhodes, whose mother committed suicide when he was a year old, recalls how he and his older brother were...
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Jan.04.2008
A vivid and beautifully crafted chronicle of an exile's return to Palestine.
Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his...
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Jan.02.2008
Melodic and vibrant, this debut novel braids together three generations of an extended African-American family in which everyone is fiercely and uncompromisingly bound by love and loyalty. The story explores in particular the lives of the women in the family: Ernestine, the blind grandmother who...
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Jan.02.2008
Named by her grandfather after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is feisty, rebellious, individualistic - a person determined to make of her life a work of art. In I, the Divine, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel,...
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Jan.02.2008
Following the publication of his critically acclaimed first novel, Koolaids, Rabih Alameddine offers a collection of stories that explores the experience of a number of Lebanese characters - men and women, gay and straight--whose lives have been blown apart by a disastrous civil war and the...
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Dec.31.2007
The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World
Edited by Therese J. Borchard
About the Anthology
The supermom is a suburban legend. At some point, we've all forgotten to pack a lunch, yelled at our kids, or been late to soccer practice. This book is for every mom...
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Dec.31.2007
"An evocative, sensitive, and beautifully crafted memoir by a journalist whose older sister and brother each suffered from schizophrenia; the brother ultimately committed suicide. ... Simon does so many things well. She clearly explains the two major psychoses (schizophrenia and bipolar, or...
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Dec.27.2007
India, past and present, its inhabitants and expatriates, has always formed the framework of Mukherjee’s literary world. In this vibrant novel, a sequel to Desirable Daughters and her best work to date, the author has fused history, mysticism, treachery and enduring love in a suspenseful story...
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