Blogs in January 2022

Imitating Art 17th January 2022

Stories are timeless and some travel too well for comfort A writer traveling in Asia settles down in a remote guesthouse in the off season. He needs a cheap and quiet place to write a crime story based on...

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There Was A Time 10th November 2021

It is the summer of 1945, the last and very dangerous days of World War II. The Office of Strategic Services is in close, cooperative contact with Ho Chi Minh and the fighting cadre of the Viet Minh, working...

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House of Sticks 19th June 2021

An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’ s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she...

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The Paper Boat 13th June 2021

Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by...

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Run Me to Earth 20th May 2021

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, “one of those rare novels that stays with us to...

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