Cecile Pin’s Wandering Souls is about three siblings who leave Vietnam in 1978 and make it to Hong Kong. Their parents and younger siblings were supposed to follow on the next boat. They are found dead on the shore instead, and the three are left with each other. Anh is the oldest. The book opens […]
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Protected: Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
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Protected: My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is about two people who spend thirty years making video games together. There are a lot of games in it and Oregon Trail keeps coming back, but I’d call it a book about partnership more than a book about games. You don’t need to be a gamer to […]
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Protected: For love’s sake only
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