How could I not love a book where stories are found within stories? There’s a mystery here, too, one which I didn’t guess until the end of the book.
The old woman is a mystery herself. At first, she seems incomprehensible, her actions arbitrary. Then, I started to warm up to her, wishing her freedom against the odds. Here’s the forgotten history of a bond between Black and Indigenous people under colonial rule. The writing is powerful. The stories are powerful.
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'Fresh and propulsive . . . a testament to the power of story and a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times
Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. No, child. You got to swing your freedom like a club.
In 1859, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore…
Beautiful prose always hooks me in. Yet it takes more than the loveliness of writing style to keep me wanting to find out more, to care for the fate of the characters.
The two protagonists in Greek Lessons are each locked within their own worlds of language and perception. That is their bond and their difficulty. I was anxious to find out if, in the end, they could connect.
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.
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In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.
Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just…
I never met my great-uncle, a sleeping car porter, around the time of the setting of this book. His wife told me that the work had led to his early death.
I was interested to read this book about the life and work of a sleeping car porter. I was not disappointed. I was drawn to the character of Baxter, a man who dreamed of a life outside of the limitations he was presented with. In that, he had something in common with my great-uncle.
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When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair
The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two…
