Blogs in April 2020

The Crane 20th April 2020

In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences...

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They Know Not What They Do 19th April 2020

Family dysfunction, digital technologies and animal rights activism in Helsinki and Baltimore. Winner of the Finlandia Prize in 2014.

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Relative Fortunes 18th April 2020

In 1920s New York, the price of a woman’s independence can be exorbitant—even fatal. In 1924 Manhattan, women’s suffrage is old news. For sophisticated booklover Julia Kydd, life’s too short for politics. With her cropped hair and penchant for...

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Until The Last Star Fades 16th April 2020

In her senior year at NYU, Riley Hope appears to be on top of the world. With a loving mother who makes Lorelai Gilmore look like a parenting slacker, ride-or-die friends, and a longtime boyfriend destined for the National...

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What Lies Between Us 15th April 2020

Ganga, a young girl, grows up carefree in the midst of her loving family in an old and beautiful house nestled in the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka. Her childhood is like any other–until it isn’t. A cherished...

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