Blogs in February 2020

Snow Falling on Cedars 13th February 2020

He saw the soft cedars of San Piedro Island, its high, rolling hills, the low mist that lay in long streamers against its beaches, the whitecaps riffling its shoreline. The moon had risen already behind the island – a...

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If I Stay 12th February 2020

‘Just listen,’ Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.’ I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. ‘Stay,’ he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break...

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Almanac of the Dead 12th February 2020

“To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go.” –Maxine Hong Kingston In its extraordinary range of character and culture,...

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Where the Sea Used to Be 12th February 2020

The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men – his proteges, her...

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A House for Happy Mothers 10th February 2020

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two...

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