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Five More to Go: Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King [in The Booklist Reader]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Biography, Black/African American, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Maaza Mengiste’s indelible debut, Beneath the Lion’s Gate (2010), put Ethiopian historical fiction on countless best-of, must-read, and award lists. Her monumental new novel draws inspiration from her great-grandmother, who as the eldest – and in Mulan-style! – answered Emperor...

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, foreword by Abraham Verghese [in Library Journal]

24 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW In his sublime "foreword [that] might be better thought of as an afterword," physician and bestselling author Abraham Verghese reveals that he came to know Paul Kalanithi "most intimately when he'd ceased to be." That, too, is true of every listener here. Neurosurgeon Kalanithi died in...

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

23 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Indian African, Indian American, South Asian American

Truth: if not for Sunil Malhotra, I would never have finished Abraham Verghese's bestselling first novel, Cutting for Stone. Immediately opened upon receipt more than two years ago, for some reason, my bookmark never moved beyond the first few chapters ...

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