Everyone is going to die. Everyone knows that, and very
few deal with it.
Even though we know it’s going to happen, thinking about it
and preparing is always postponed. This book introduces us to a uniquely meaningful way to deal with death. It is also a love story.
It was first
written in Italian, translated to English, and is set in Japan. All these make
for a different and very useful view of how to deal with death.
Laura Imai Messina’s international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami.
When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain.
This is a fictional novel about the real, continuing moral dilemma of racism and prejudice in the United States and other countries.
It is based on actual events. A black woman who was a capable registered nurse worked many years in the pediatric ward of a hospital. As is typical of hospital pediatric wards, many things were happening at the same time. She was not supposed to attend the birth of a child but happened to be the only one available
The father, a white man, was extremely prejudiced, complained to hospital authorities, and caused a series of problems for the nurse, who basically lost her job.
I will not reveal the ending because one must read the story to learn about themselves, racism in the United States, the resolution of difficult moral problems, and how the existence of racism, even in a hospital, affects many lives.
'Small Great Things is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written ... It will challenge her readers ... [and] expand our cultural conversation about race and prejudice.' - The Washington Post
When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father.
What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.
We
all eat because we must and often because we enjoy it.
We all need to
pay more attention to what we eat, where words come from, and what happens as we lose
some of the diversity of our food.
As we sacrifice diversity, we ALL sacrifice
the places and people who preserve ecological and dietary diversity. The author
this innumerable endangered foods and food cultures across the planet and
encourages us to think about why they’re important
What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like “foodie,” but a form of reverence . . . Enchanting." ―Molly Young, The New York Times
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever
Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of…
Agriculture continues to face unprecedented scrutiny for its social
and environmental effects. The book probes the key ethical debate
surrounding agriculture and agri-food supply chains.
The chapters written by 12
authors from six countries the book laid a firm foundation for ethical
consideration in all forms of agriculture and associated technologies in
effects on the environment, plants, animals, and human societies.
