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Almond by Won-pyung Sohn, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee [in Booklist]

23 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Novels featuring neurodiverse protagonists are claiming more space on both adult and children’s shelves. The most common underlying message encourages kindness and empathy, despite obvious, sometimes impenetrable, differences. In what might be the first novel to feature a protagonist with alexithymia – an inability...

A Burning by Megha Majumdar [in Booklist]

22 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW For the first time in her young life, Jivan has her own cellphone, which she bought with money earned by working as a shopgirl, having left high school after barely passing her tenth-form exams. After witnessing a gruesome train-station attack during her 15-minute walk...

Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore, illustrated by Xindi Yan [in Shelf Awareness]

20 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Despite Daisy's carefully prepared "Things to do with Yeh-yeh" list, her goal during the week of her grandfather's visit is something far more challenging: "I have to make him smile before he leaves!" In creating Daisy and her Grandpa Grumps, Katrina Moore (One Hug) explores multi-generational,...

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi [in Booklist]

19 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW The rest of that subtitle goes “A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,” with the keyword being Remix, thanks to Jason Reynolds’ (Long Way Down) remarkable synthesizing of Ibram X. Kendi’s 600-page, 19-plus-hour original. Kendi reads his introduction, lauding Reynolds’ superb...

The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury, translated by Ros Schwartz [in Library Journal]

18 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, French, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Translation

Despite living in glorious Paris, Juliette's daily life is mundane. Her real estate job isn't fulfilling, her closest friend is flighty coworker Chloe, and her love life currently nonexistent. The day's highlight is her Métro commute, when she can commune with books – both the...

Five More to Go: Cho Nam-Joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 [in The Booklist Reader]

17 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, Canadian, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo and translated by Jamie Chang Cho’s narrative is part bildungsroman and part Wikipedia entry. She opens with “August, 2015,” immediately divulging the fragile mental state of her titular Kim Jiyoung, who now as a wife and mother has...

The Royal Abduls by Ramiza Shamoun Koya [in Shelf Awareness]

16 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

In her provocative, intense debut novel, The Royal Abduls, Ramiza Shamoun Koya introduces the extended members of a fractured family four years after the horrors of 9/11. Each is attempting to deal with ongoing anti-Muslim challenges, from microaggressions to outright civil rights abuses. Despite a shared...

We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning [in Booklist]

15 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW Corinne Manning’s author statement couldn’t be clearer. “I had no idea how to write authentically until the day when I typed the sentence ‘Oh, f*ck it. I’m writing lesbian fiction.’” That declaration became “Gay Tale,” one of 11 stories in this collection, her first,...

Oil by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Jeanette Winter [in Shelf Awareness]

14 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Three decades after the Exxon Valdez ran aground on March 24, 1989, in Alaska's Prince William Sound, author Jonah Winter (Thurgood) and his author/illustrator mother, Jeanette Winter (Malala/Iqbal), present the environmental catastrophe in a straightforward manner ideal for younger audiences. With a similar display of transparency...

Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan [in Booklist]

13 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Repost

After a decade together, Oscar and Mina married, but on their wedding night, Mina downed all the pills she could find, yet somehow lived. Six months later, she’s walking across George Washington Bridge. She’s already sent one of her purple flip-flops into the dark below...

Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories by Maria Reva [in Shelf Awareness]

10 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Short Stories, Ukrainian, Ukrainian American

Ivansk Street, Number 1933, in Kirovka, Ukraine, seems be an exact address, but the town council's clerk insists "that building does not exist." Constructed last year, "someone seemed to have forgotten to connect it to the district furnace," but plenty of people already live there....

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez [in Booklist]

09 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW Earth’s destruction, space inhabitation, time travel – none of that is unfamiliar. Rampant capitalism, workaholic isolation, and family bonds too can be pedestrian themes. Yet Simon Jimenez’s debut, which includes all of the above, is a remarkably fresh, electrifying story that, at its core,...

Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima, translated by Stephen Dodd [in Shelf Awareness]

08 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Two years after the original 1968 publication in Japan of Life for Sale, which opens immediately with a young man's failed attempt to die, Yukio Mishima (Star) led an unsuccessful military coup d'etat that ended with his highly publicized, gruesomely violent ritual suicide. Just 45...

Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Arian [in Shelf Awareness}

07 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Iranian, Iranian American, Persian, Persian American, Repost

Prolifically published in his native Farsi, Amir Ahmadi Arian makes his English-language debut with Then the Fish Swallowed Him, a disturbingly irresistible novel exposing the invalidity of truth and lies under a despotic regime. Growing up in a volatile, politically fractured society and losing both parents...

Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah, translated by Geoffrey Strachan [in Booklist]

06 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Fiction, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW How can a story so harrowing, so wrenching be so gorgeous? In her third novel exquisitely translated by award-winning Geoffrey Strachan, Mauritius-born journalist and translator Nathacha Appanah (Waiting for Tomorrow, 2018) presents the beginning and dissolution of a boy, Moïse, and all the people...

Jasmine Green Rescues: A Piglet Called Truffle by Helen Peters, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon [in Shelf Awareness]

03 Apr, by SIBookDragon in British, British Asian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

The delightfully adventurous Jasmine Green series makes its Stateside debut with the adorable A Piglet Called Truffle. Spirited Jasmine is a veritable animal expert thanks to her farmer father, her veterinarian mother, and all the inhabitants (including, ahem, her two siblings) that thrive on the...

Dominicana by Angie Cruz [in Booklist]

02 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers

“The invisibility of the women, in particular of my community, fueled this desire to write the Dominican experience, the Latinx experience, the immigrant experience, the New York experience,” reveals Angie Cruz in an interview accessible only if you choose audio. Making her narrator debut, fellow...

The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai + Author Interview [in The Booklist Reader]

01 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

Filling a Lack of Voices from Inside Việt Nam: Talking with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Thousands of Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s devoted readers should have been meeting her live over these next few weeks to hear about The Mountains Sing, her first novel in English. But an unprecedented...

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles [in Booklist]

31 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW “I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now.” Kazu is dead, but his spirit can’t rest. As he wanders through Tokyo’s Imperial Gift Park – where he last lived as a homeless wanderer – memories, visions, and hauntings...

Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup [in Library Journal]

30 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian

*STARRED REVIEW “I am not well read, nor am I a craftswoman of language,” the Mumbai-based journalist/educator Shubhangi Swarup insists in an author’s note to her editor. And yet her debut novel will certainly be one of the most wondrous literary achievements to hit the shelves...

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