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Just one post for July’s paperbacks and a thin one at that. I blame summer reading which tends not to appeal to me. The good news is that four out of the six titles are tried and tested beginning with Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway, a 1950s American odyssey. Released early from Salina, the youth […]
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I spotted Anthony Veasna So’s short story collection, Afterparties, on Twitter quite some time ago and was delighted when a copy dropped through my letterbox. Just as Souvankham Thammavongsa’s wonderful collection, How to Pronounce Knife, explored the experiences of the Laotian diaspora through its second generation, So’s is about young Cambodian-Americans whose parents and grandparents
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Not unexpectedly in a month when publishers’ sights are firmly set on summer reading, I’ve only come across enough titles for a single preview post although it’s a pleasingly mixed bag, several of which I’ve already read. I’m starting with John Boyne’s The Echo Chamber which I practically inhaled as soon as it arrived. It
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