Three More Brief Reviews
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50books_poc(From my book-a-day Twitter reviews, which you can find at booktweeting.)
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People, by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008; ISBN-13: 978-0374154844)
ALASKA NATIVE activist and politician looks at almost 70 years of changes in his homeland, and in Inupiat culture. A MINUS
(More than I Tweeted: This was a really astonishing book. The style is completely unadorned, which may put some people off, but I encourage you to stick with it--the matter-of-fact detail about daily life as an Inupiaq in a rapidly changing Alaska is powerful.)
Lust, Loathing, and a Little Lip Gloss, by Kyra Davis
(New York: Mira, 2009; ISBN-13: 978-0778327363)
SASSY SAN FRANCISCO SLEUTH Sophie Katz is back in another book, a juicy tale involving ghosts and family secrets. B PLUS
Important point: Characters in this book express some really vile transphobia, as well as some homophobia and biphobia, so this may be triggering to some readers.
English: A Novel, by Wang Gang, translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan
(New York: Viking, 2009; ISBN-13: 978-0670020591)
COMING OF AGE STORY set in then-remote Xinjiang Province during Mao's Cultural Revolution is terrifying, touching. B PLUS
(More than I Tweeted: I am all full of crazy mixed-up feelings about this book. When I say it's "terrifying", I really mean it: the world he depicts is bleak, and though there are moments of human connection and beauty, it's a very grim story. Weirdly, it's being marketed as this sweet book about the universal experience of growing up, which it SO ISN'T.)
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People, by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008; ISBN-13: 978-0374154844)
ALASKA NATIVE activist and politician looks at almost 70 years of changes in his homeland, and in Inupiat culture. A MINUS
(More than I Tweeted: This was a really astonishing book. The style is completely unadorned, which may put some people off, but I encourage you to stick with it--the matter-of-fact detail about daily life as an Inupiaq in a rapidly changing Alaska is powerful.)
Lust, Loathing, and a Little Lip Gloss, by Kyra Davis
(New York: Mira, 2009; ISBN-13: 978-0778327363)
SASSY SAN FRANCISCO SLEUTH Sophie Katz is back in another book, a juicy tale involving ghosts and family secrets. B PLUS
Important point: Characters in this book express some really vile transphobia, as well as some homophobia and biphobia, so this may be triggering to some readers.
English: A Novel, by Wang Gang, translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan
(New York: Viking, 2009; ISBN-13: 978-0670020591)
COMING OF AGE STORY set in then-remote Xinjiang Province during Mao's Cultural Revolution is terrifying, touching. B PLUS
(More than I Tweeted: I am all full of crazy mixed-up feelings about this book. When I say it's "terrifying", I really mean it: the world he depicts is bleak, and though there are moments of human connection and beauty, it's a very grim story. Weirdly, it's being marketed as this sweet book about the universal experience of growing up, which it SO ISN'T.)
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