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Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner [in Library Journal]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

After nearly a quarter-century spent in Minnesota, Teera returns to her native Cambodia, fulfilling her aunt's dying wish that part of her ashes be delivered home. Having witnessed, decades earlier, the decimation of the rest of her family, Teera is now completely alone. She seeks the...

Unbecoming by Jenny Downham [in School Library Journal]

03 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Mary, Caroline, and Katie are three very different generations in the same family; finding themselves unexpectedly under the same roof forces them to confront a complicated past that has kept them estranged for decades. Mary is the grandmother, newly widowed, fighting the dementia that...

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid [in Library Journal]

02 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW "We are all migrants through time," observes Man Booker Prize short-lister Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist). The impulses driving such movement, especially when rooted in violent conflict, is at the core of Hamid's exceptional fourth novel. In an unnamed city (not unlike the author's native...

The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue, illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono [in Shelf Awareness]

01 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Sixteen years ago, a pregnant woman walking the hospital halls found a lottery ticket on the floor. The ticket proved quite the winner, enabling the new mother – and her three co-parents – to "buy a big house to fill with lots more kids, and...

The Year of the Rooster: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin, illustrated by Juan Calle

27 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

Well holy, moly! How did a dozen years fly by so quickly?! San Francisco indie press Immedium’s 12-part Tales from the Chinese Zodiac, written by founding publisher and author Oliver Chin, comes full circle with a final, rousing cock-a-doodle-dooooo!! Mama and Papa welcome Ray to their flock, earning his name...

Mamá the Alien | Mamá la extraterrestre by René Colata Laínez, illustrated by Laura Lacámara

25 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x

When Sofia’s bouncing ball knocks over her mother’s purse, what spills out is more than just the usual keys and wallet – she finds proof that her mother is a registered ALIEN, “¡una extraterrestre!” She’s even more surprised when her mother confirms that the card...

Hag-Seed [Hogarth Shakespeare] by Margaret Atwood [in Library Journal]

16 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In the fourth – and most entertaining – of the updated-by-famous-contemporary-authors "Hogarth Shakespeare" series (which also includes Jeannette Winterson's The Gap of Time, Howard Jacobson's Shylock Is My Name, and Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl), The Tempest gets reset to an Ontario theater festival and a correctional...

Monstress | Volume One: Awakening by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda

13 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Young Adult Readers

"I wanted to write about girls and monsters, which has been a theme of mine from almost the start of my career — girls and giant monsters, and the supernatural," bestselling author Marjorie Liu told The Hollywood Reporter in a 2015 interview. "I wanted to...

The Mothers by Brit Bennet [in Library Journal]

11 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The collective elder mothers of Upper Room Chapel open with a Greek chorus-esque recitation about happenings affecting their congregation. At the center of the chatter is Nadia, 17, who had "earned a wild reputation" since her mother committed suicide six months earlier; the Upper Room...

The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout [in School Library Journal]

10 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Having survived too many violently nightmarish years in foster care, Mallory knows how lucky she is to finally have two unconditionally loving parents. After years of intensive therapy, she's ready to try something most teens expect to experience: her senior year of high school. Mallory's...

Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

09 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW With Han Kang’s The Vegetarian awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, her follow-up will garner extra scrutiny. Bottom line? This new work, again seamlessly translated by Deborah Smith, who also provides an indispensable contextual introduction, is even more stupendous. Han drops readers into a...

The Outliers [The Outliers Trilogy, Book 1] by Kimberly McCreight [in School Library Journal]

06 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Still reeling from her mother's sudden death, Wylie – already fighting debilitating anxiety – has become even more self-isolating. When her former best friend's mother shows up desperately seeking her daughter Cassie, Wylie doesn't confess that the two have barely seen each other since Cassie...

Tell Us Something True by Dana Reinhardt [in School Library Journal]

05 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

River Dean, 17, is not a bad kid: he's got warm relationships with his family (except his runaway dad), does well at school, and has good friends. But when Penny, the love of his life, dumps him, River starts making awful decisions, starting with stumbling...

Moo by Sharon Creech [in School Library Journal]

04 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Twelve-year-old Reena's outburst during a family conversation about parental careers, geography, and the future "ten years from now" catapults the family from a city of monuments, subways, and museums and lands them in rural Maine. Her expectations of her new home include lobsters, blueberries, beaches,...

Ghost [Track series: Book 1] by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]

03 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Guy Lockard has assumed the mantle of narrator-of-choice for Jason Reynolds’s fiction: Ghost (2016 National Book Award finalist) is Lockard's third Reynolds title, following As Brave as You and Rashad's chapters in All American Boys. Here, as seventh grader Castle "Ghost" Crenshaw, Lockard performs...

The Best Man by Richard Peck [in School Library Journal]

02 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The latest from Newbery Medal-winning author Richard Peck takes on important and timely topics – marriage, sexuality, manhood, nontraditional families –and alchemizes them into an affecting story full of warmth, acceptance, and understanding. Sixth grader Archer Magill narrates what he calls "A Tale of...

The Boy & the Bindi by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Rajini Perara [in School Library Journal]

28 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

A young boy, curious about his “Ammi’s dot … a bright and pretty spot,” innocently asks, “Why do you wear that dot?/What’s so special about that spot?” His mother crouches to eye level so he can touch her forehead as she explains, “It’s not a...

The Mortifications by Derek Palacio [in Library Journal]

21 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A mother, Soledad, flees Cuba, abandoning her revolutionary husband Uxmal and absconding with their 12-year-old twins Ulises and Isabel. She bypasses Miami for Hartford, CT, finding work as a court stenographer, making her the transcriber of other people's words. Although Uxmal’s presence never seems to...

Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith [in Library Journal]

20 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

The dozen stories in Ali Smith's (How To Be Both) latest collection share a common characteristic: a contagious sense of wordplay, from obscure etymology ("buxom" originally meant "obedient, compliant, gracious") in "Last," to multiple meanings of "fraud" linking D.H. Lawrence to credit card theft in...

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee [in Booklist]

19 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A decade after her international best-selling debut, Free Food for Millionaires (2007), Min Jin Lee’s follow-up is an exquisite, haunting epic that crosses almost a century, four generations, and three countries while depicting an ethnic Korean family that cannot even claim a single shared...

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