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Hello, I am crying. Any ode to libraries has my whole heart. This picture book is an ode to public libraries from the point of view of a young immigrant mother, based on Morales' own experiences. Flashback to all the times my own immigrant mother took me to our local public library… Stunning, beautiful, determined, compassionate. What a gift. [Tanya]
If you've ever felt like an alien on earth, you will love this absurd, sparkling book. What shapes a life? What gives it meaning? Who gets to decide what is meaningful? I was charmed by this book's details, its brevity that says so much. Convenience Store Woman won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature in 2016; it is a blessing that Sayaka Murata's novel (her tenth) is available to us now, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. [Tanya]
Growing up queer in the 50s, being a spy in 60s Buenos Aires. I loved Vera from page 1. An unprecedented kind of spy novel. More like this, please, I didn't want it to end! [Tanya]
I'm ready to call it. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen is the best poetry book of 2018. [Kenny]
This is a Western by way of Australia but reminiscent of our own history of geography and genocide. Its rendering of grief and guilt sticks with you. [Raissa]
This book is small but it's packed with wisdom. These short lessons will revolutionize how you see your loved ones. Full of new ideas as well as reminders. [Karen]
In this epic there's room under the sky for characters taciturn and loyal, loving and illogical, searching, settling, surviving. If you read only one Western, this should be it. [Raissa]
A funny and moving debut that has a lot to say about our families—chosen and otherwise. [Karen]
Tracy K. Smith taught me how to love poetry. Wade in the Water is her first new book of poems since Life on Mars won a Pulitzer Prize. Buy these poems. Make a home for them. Love them. [Kenny]
A once-in-a-lifetime kind of book. Frank & full of love & forceful & free. Over & over this book made me stop in my tracks—completely stunned by its beauty. [Kenny]
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