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Melissa Holbrook Pierson Author Of The Place You Love Is Gone

From Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Melissa Holbrook Pierson Why Melissa loves this book

The book's premise was one I thought I wouldn't be interested in, but boy was I wrong: the author meshed two subjects with compelling drive and instinct. Beautifully conceived and written, it was one of the most moving books I read this year.

By Eiren Caffall ,

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1 author picked The Mourner's Bestiary as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.

"Caffall brilliantly parallels her family’s suffering with large-scale ecological upheaval, maintaining a flicker of hope for the future in both cases. This deserves a wide readership." Publisher's Weekly Starred Review

Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy.

A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary is also a meditation on grief and survival…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Melissa Holbrook Pierson Author Of The Place You Love Is Gone

From Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Melissa Holbrook Pierson Why Melissa loves this book

It is rare to read a book that is as new as the daybreak: this is that book, which claims territory of its own. No one else has done what Kevin Killian did--he created his own genre.

By Kevin Killian ,

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1 author picked Selected Amazon Reviews as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.

An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others.

The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for…


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