And I had a hard time grasping the magic behind the hands and numbers, which made it difficult to connect with the characters and their stakes. Often I'd catch myself drifting because the words on the page refused to cohere into any sort of plot in my head. We're immediately thrown to the world-building wolves, launching into convoluted gangster conspiracies without fanfare or context. I confess that I struggled for a significant portion of the book. But I also think it's important to say off the bat: While it wasn't the book for me, I would absolutely still recommend this for its unique exploration into legacies of trauma in BIPOC communities, and to anyone intrigued by preternatural assassins grappling with morality and mortality. I feel really conflicted about Trouble the Saints. until the colonized and the enslaved and the abused will rise up with the holy strength of the gods behind them and, together, we will make it right. When we return to the wheel of life, you and I, we will find one another again and again.
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you could be anywhere right now, and that's where I wanted my characters to be. "Where are we right now? There's not a cloud in the sky," Straub says. I wanted them to exist in a New York City that a lot of people don't know exists, the quiet one. You could be anywhere right now, and that's where I wanted my characters to be. The main drag is a busy shopping area - music blasts from passing cars - but turn off that street and suddenly you're in another world, of shady streets lined with big old clapboard and shingled houses set in blooming gardens. Then she thought of Ditmas Park, which is in Brooklyn, but not the Brooklyn you're thinking of. "It seemed so not what I wanted to do, just 'cause who needs another book about Brooklyn," she says wryly. She thought she would set it in her own neighborhood in Brooklyn - but she kind of hated that idea. She knew there would be a family in it, with a teenage son. Straub tells me she played around with the idea for this book for a long time. Her new one is Modern Lovers, and it's set in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park neighborhood, where we met up for a stroll. Her last book, The Vacationers, was a best-seller. But there's no hint of horror in Emma Straub's work her fiction tends more toward genial explorations of marriage and family and friendship. Her father is Peter Straub, a writer who specialized in the genre. How?Įmma Straub was raised in a house of horror - horror fiction, that is. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Modern Lovers Author Emma Straub Over the course of a summer, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging come expectations and secrets she doesn’t understand. 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It’s also great if you’re looking for a shorter adaption that doesn’t sacrifice the original’s depth and complexity of ideas. Overall, this text would work well in any introductory Indigenous Studies, Ethnic Studies, or environmental justice course. I also appreciate that the art is by Indigenous creatives. And the art! Beautiful and worthy of dialogue on its own. The adaptation doesn’t include a couple essays that are in the original, but this is a plus if you’re looking for a shorter read to assign in classes with supplemental materials or if your community read is on a shorter timeline. An emphasis on key passages and discussion prompts is helpful for youth and adults alike. However, this young readers adaptation is different. I typically refrain from assigning young adult adaptations since I find most to be a bit too simplistic, even for young adults. Thank you to NetGalley and the authors for an advanced copy of this young adult adaptation of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass.Īs a community college educator, I’m constantly looking for accessible, affordable, and challenging texts to assign in my ethnic and gender studies classes. And the celebration of the 1918 armistice was compromised by a flu pandemic. The romantic idealism with which British society approached that conflict, the anticipation of short skirmishes that would bring peace and produce war heroes, soon became the grim reality of trench warfare and gas masks, field hospitals and the realization that churches were hosting far more funerals than weddings. The British author had spent her teenage years in the East Sussex village of Rye, the setting for her novel which begins in 1914 during the summer before the beginning of the war that was touted as the one to end all wars. 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Loved the book so much I can't put it into words' 5***** READER REVIEW _ Raised as a warrior, Princess Lara knows two things: King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. Do I even need to say more?' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Enemies to Lovers and full of Angst. ARMENTROUT, bestselling author of FROM BLOOD AND ASH 'You will devour it! Badass females, slow burn romance, enemies to lovers. DISCOVER THE SPELLBINDING DARK FANTASY TIKTOK SENSATION 'Do not walk to pick up this book. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger by Darcie Little Badger Illustrated by Rovina Cai Levine Querido, 2020 368 pages 978-1646140053 Age 12 and older Following news that her older cousin Trevor has died, Ellie, a contemporary Lipan Apache teen in Texas, is visited by Trevor in a dream in which he tells her he was murdered. 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