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Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey from El Salvador to the United States without family at age nine keeps the reader within each...
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Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Letter. It's magical and...
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Main protagonist Gifty's journey was full of challenges and not too easy or complete, and her voice had me hooked throughout Yaa Gyasi's...
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Characters cope with lost dreams and find ways to (often clumsily) come together through their shared pain. The vibrancy of Beirut is...
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Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition
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