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New in Hardcover The Vegetarian by Han Kang “The Vegetarian is about transformation: birthmarks bloom into flowers, trees alight with flames, arms stretch out into roots, a bird speaks with a mother’s voice, a piece of art transcends the piece itself to shatter several lives. Yeong-hye’s violent dreams are a product of a lifetime of … Continue reading New Books! 2/2/16
This post comes from our inventory manager Jan. It all started with the nightmare. In the midst of Kim Yeong-hye and her husband’s mediocre, middle-class marriage, the dream about blood and meat and carnage. To make the dream stop, Yeong-hye stops eating meat. Then all food. Eventually, she becomes more plant-like than animal to … Continue reading Spotlight on International Fiction: THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang
MOLLY The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander "I'm only a chapter in, but I can already tell this book is IMPORTANT. Alexander lucidly traces the history of slavery and Jim Crow down to the mass incarceration of young black men today, and describes a civil and human rights crisis that has been shockingly ignored in … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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