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Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin [in Library Journal]

20 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW That Aviva Grossman became infamous as "Florida's answer to Monica Lewinsky" provides a quick snapshot of why she's now living in small-town Maine as Jane Young. As a 20-year-old intern to Miami Congressman Aaron Levin, she not only had that affair with the married,...

Vintage by Susan Gloss

27 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian American

A divorcée with her baby clock ticking, a teenage-math-prodigy-mother-to-be who no longer needs that wedding dress, and an immigrant Indian woman who's just found out her husband has spent the better part of their three-decade marriage lying to her, gather in a vintage clothing shop...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

19 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Korean, Nonfiction, North Korean

Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. Her interviews, which began in 2001, eventually became Nothing to Envy, a mind-boggling, heartbreaking, surreal-ly humanizing portrait of six...

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