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by Luke Sutherland
“Syr Hayati Beker’s gleaming novella What a Fish Looks Like alchemizes confessional notes and remixed fairy tales to tell a story of queer survival amid ecological disaster. … passed notes, party invitations, and other ephemera...
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by Kathy Young
I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This / Eugene Yelchin / Candlewick / Hardcover $22.99 (432pp) / 978-1-5362-1553-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / An artist seeks freedom from oppressive Russian authorities in Eugene...
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The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his...
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by Matt Sutherland
Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews sid sibo, Author of The Scent of Distant Family / Pockets of the northwestern United States have long experienced infiltrations of wealthy city folk seeking solitude, unpressured trout rivers,...
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by Kristen Rabe
A writer we’ve long adored is back with an enchanting history of apples—and while Priyanka Kumar doesn’t quite cover all 16,000 known apple varieties in The Light Between Apple Trees, you will be hard pressed to keep from rewilding...
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by Kathy Young
Other People’s Mothers / Julie Marie Wade / University Press of Florida / Softcover $28.00 (182pp) / 978-0-8130-8114-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is...
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by Jennifer Maveety
Reviewer Jennifer Maveety Interviews Patty Krawec, Author of Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds / Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way. Bad Indians refuse to...
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Eva is nervous about Hanukkah this year, in a new town with her friends so far away. But when the neighbor, Charlie, sees the light from the hanukkiah in her window, it prompts him to reach out. Eva is overjoyed to share holiday treats...
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