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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
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Fully set in the real world and possibly semi-autobiographical, Margaret Atwood's "Cat's Eye" is about friendships, particularly friendships between women. It's also about personal relationships with places. And it's about art, and the process of becoming an artist. I first read this book as a young teenager, than again in my late twenties, and it resonated strongly with me at both stages of my life.
Updated Mar 1, 2008
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
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After more than a decade spent in Los Angeles, Delia Byrd returns to Cayro, Georgia, with her 10 year old daughter Cissy in tow. There she struggles to reunite with her two teenage daughters, whom she abandoned years earlier when she left her abusive husband, while Cissy struggles to make sense of this strange new world.
Updated Feb 21, 2008
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra
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Although it sounds like a polemic about the merits of Buddhism, "The End of Suffering" is actually about many things. Part travelogue, part history lesson, part autobiography, part philosophy primer, this book is a must for anybody interested in Buddhism, India, and the dialog between Eastern and Western thought. Oh yeah, and it's an easy read, too.
Updated Feb 19, 2008
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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Told from a child's point of view, this story is a study in history, culture, and human nature. It's beautifully written with a strong sense of place and complex characters. And it's ultimately devastating.
Updated Feb 17, 2008
The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa
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Is Japanese society completely homogenous and conformist? Canadian scientist David Suzuki and Japanese anthropologist Keibo Oiwa ask this question, and the answer takes them from Okinawa to Sakhalin Island. Along the way they meet people fighting for social and environmental justice, from indigenous Okinawans and Ainu to ethnic Koreans, feminists, food and environmental activists, and artists who keep the memory of war alive so that future generations may live in peace.
Updated Feb 15, 2008
End Of Elsewhere: Travels Among The Tourists by Taras Grescoe
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Canadian writer Taras Grescoe takes a journey through history as he follows the travel ruts followed by the quasi-adventurous from antiquity to the present. Both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply disturbing at the same time.
Updated Feb 13, 2008
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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This novel tells the story of the Price family, Southern Baptist missionaries who set out for the Belgian Congo in 1959 with the intention of "saving souls". Of course, their mission doesn't go exactly as planned. It's also the story of a nation's fight for independence and its struggle to achieve democracy in the aftermath of colonization. (That didn't go too well, either.)
Updated Feb 11, 2008
Transmission by Hari Kunzru
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This second novel by British author Hari Kunzru follows the interwoven stories of Arjun Mehta, a naive Indian computer programmer working for a U.S. software company, Guy Swift, a cynical British PR/marketing entrepreneur, and Leela Zahir, a young and disillusioned Bollywood star. It's a searingly funny critique of the current global economy and the struggle to secure a safe, comfortable place within it.
Updated Feb 13, 2008
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