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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Mohsin Hamid [in Christian Science Monitor]

26 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Memoir, Nonfiction, Pakistani, Repost, South Asian

'Civilization and its Discontents' highlights the intertwined Pakistani, British, and American roots of Mohsin Hamid Thanks to Haruki Murakami, we won't have to wait as long for Mohsin Hamid’s future novels. Hamid's acclaimed first two, Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, took seven years each. His...

The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri by Avi Steinberg

20 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Jewish, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

In an attempt to better understand the unfamiliar territory in which I find myself domiciled through June 2016 (yes, I'm counting), I've been reading quite a few titles that hopefully will provide insight into the mindset of some of our would-be neighbors. Many of those books...

In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot by Gail Gutradt, with a foreword by Dr. Paul Farmer

12 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Cambodian, Jewish, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Gail Gutradt is not a journalist. She is not a nurse or doctor, and actually has no training in the medical profession. She is not a mother. She is not a Buddhist. She speaks very little Khmer. For everything she is not, Gutradt is a...

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg

08 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Afghan, Audio, European, Nonfiction, Swedish

A girl is born: "She is perfect, down to her tiny, grasping fingers." But here's what her life will probably look like: "...

Girls on the Edge: Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan, Gabi: A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero, I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn, and Falling into Place by Amy Zhang [in American Book Review]

05 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Chinese American, European, Fiction, Iranian American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Girls on the Edge Adolescence without instant uploads, 140-character confessions, and constant connectivity was just so last century – survival in the 21st means a whole new set of unfamiliar, unpredictable challenges. In four recent, better-not-miss novels for young adults, four diverse women writers amplify the modern...

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro

14 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, European, Jewish, Nonfiction

Sometimes, whispers can speak more loudly than any shouts and screams ...

Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis, translated by Laura Watkinson

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in European, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Anne Frank, the world's most famous hidden child during the Holocaust, was one of 28,000 Jews in the Netherlands alone who went into hiding. She was one of 12,000 who were betrayed and didn't survive. Among the 16,000 who lived, was award-winning filmmaker and cameraman...

God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Juliana Neufeld

11 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indian American, Memoir, Short Stories, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Here's a book you just have to hold and feel and breathe in. Although the snapshot of the cover offers a hint of its unique size, not until you're gently flipping through the pages can you appreciate that you're clasping Toronto-based music/performance/literature/film artist Vivek Shraya’s precious little gem. Poignantly...

The Last Night of Ramadan by Maissa Hamed, illustrated by Mohamed El Wakil

27 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Arab American, Children/Picture Books, Egyptian American, Fiction

By various lunar predictions, tonight should be the last night of Ramadan. Eid Mubarak! In spite of all the good intentions expected of this holy month, world events haven't exactly played out quite that way, which only makes the first line of the preface here that...

Moon Watchers: Shirin’s Ramadan Miracle by Reza Jalali, illustrated by Anne Sibley O’Brien

24 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Iranian American

Welcome to Ramadan at Shirin's house: she sky-gazes with her father, listens to stories told by her grandmother, helps her mother sort squares for a new quilt ...

The Tyrant’s Daughter by J.C. Carleson

14 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Middle Eastern, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Laila, 15, is newly arrived from an unnamed Middle East country. She's living in a modest apartment in the suburbs of Washington, DC, with her mother and younger brother. She's at a new school with new friends, and she's doing her best to adjust to her...

Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner, foreword by Brian Michael Bendis, afterword by Jeet Heer

14 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Young Adult Readers

"I am Fagin the Jew of Oliver Twist," begins the 'father of the graphic novel'-Will Eisner's 21st-century literary reclamation of the 19th-century classic. "This is my story, one that has remained untold and overlooked in the book by Charles Dickens," a tattered old man insists....

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

23 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Small-town Maine, where Elizabeth Strout was born and raised, has been home to her four novels. In her first title since she won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her novel-in-13-stories, Olive Kitteridge, Strout returns to tiny Shirley Falls where she set her acclaimed, chilling debut, Amy and Isabelle. This time, in The Burgess...

The Case of the Love Commandos: A Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin Hall

29 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Indian, South Asian

Mysteries don't get any more substantially delicious than this: Vish Puri voiced by Sam Dastor as written by Tarquin Hall, with just the right balance of page-turning entertainment and sociopolitical insight. Before you partake, however, you should know that this is #4 in a series;...

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

26 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Biography, Black/African American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction

What writer and musician James McBride initially thought might take just six months to write required 14 long years to produce his now-almost-20-year-old debut title, The Color of Water. "Mommy" – McBride never calls her anything else – was never a cooperative subject: she shared her memories in her...

The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

24 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian, Indian African, South Asian, South Asian American

After 10 installments of her award-winning Rei Shimura mysteries, DC-area-based Sujata Massey goes historical with her latest Dictionary, published this summer after six years in the making. Dictionary marks the debut of a new series Massey intends, The Daughters of Bengal, each set in India. Given a choice...

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

09 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, European, Fiction, Jewish

Every so often, I seem to get on a specific reading spree on a topic not exactly of my choosing – that is, the books seem to serendipitously line up on their own. The latest batch of they-chose-me-titles have been set during the final brutal months...

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, British, Canadian, Fiction

Raised as a Roman Catholic convinced of at least one past life as a Jewish grandmother, I find myself in my old age utterly wary of institutionalized religions, repeatedly alarmed at what we human beings commit upon one another in the name of various (one-and-only)...

The Keeping Quilt and The Blessing Cup by Patricia Polacco

05 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Jewish, Memoir, Nonfiction, Russian

Although published a quarter century apart, these are two books that tell a single tears-of-joy-inducing family story. If chronology is important, you might read Patricia Polacco's multi-generational family epic out of publication order – that is, Blessing Cup (out this year) first, and then Keeping Quilt (which debuted in...

Beirut 1990: Snapshots of a Civil War by Sylvain Ricard, Bruno Ricard, illustrated by Christophe Gaultier, translated by Anna Provitola, edited by Alex Donoghue

27 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Lebanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Almost a quarter century has passed since two French brothers – in their early 20s at the time – decided to visit their Aunt Thérèse in Lebanon. In September 1990, the country is a 15-year-old war zone, but the brothers plan to deliver supplies, medicine, and a...

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