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'Graphic Novels: A Personal Introduction' by Charlotte Simpson
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Now translated and published after her more recent Touch, is Adania Shibli's first novel. Read an excerpt of it here!
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"I like change, you go first!" Awards and Gender: Where Do We Stand Now
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Reviews
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THE SNOW CHILD
Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey's debut novel is stunning. She has created a small world within the wilds of her native Alaska and peopled it with characters that feel as real as the neighbors next door. Full of the everyday drama of the human experience, the story of …
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Reviewed by Lisa Sanders
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UNDERGROUND TIME
Delphine de Vigan
Translated from the French by George Miller
Amidst a buzzing Paris, we find two individuals at odds with their surrounds. In spite of the steady hubbub around them, each is enveloped in a web of loneliness and sorrow that threatens to annihilate them. The woman and man routinely echo one another's inner worlds. Yet they have never met.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie Dawood
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THE LEPER COMPOUND
Paula Nangle
In The Leper Compound, Paula Nangle draws from her childhood spent in southern Africa and her experiences as a psychiatric nurse to craft this insightful debut novel about pre- and postcolonial Zimbabwe and South Africa. The story traces a European girl's…
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Reviewed by Darryl Morris
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SEND ME WORK: STORIES
Katherine Karlin
You know you're not sexist. Far from it. But when you hear that Katherine Karlin's short story collection Send Me Work is about women at work, you imagine secretaries dealing with male bosses, encountering romance with coworkers, perhaps a woman lawyer or doctor, but for sure all of them wearing heels. Why don't you think of women working in coveralls and boots…
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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