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First...I keep reading Faiza Guene's books on airplanes and she is far, far too good an author for that. Both her books are beautifully written, funny, ironic, enlightening stories of immigrant lives in Paris. Airplanes are supposed to be for reading fluffy formulaic crap about vampires and/or crime fiction and/or Downton Abbey-like-stuff in book form.
Second, it is awfully interesting to read a book about immigrant stories...as some sort of immigrant. Albeit a very privileged one. (Not feeling t ...more
Second, it is awfully interesting to read a book about immigrant stories...as some sort of immigrant. Albeit a very privileged one. (Not feeling t ...more
Aug 01, 2010
Ching-In
marked it as to-read
