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Kathleen M. Adams
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| _The Plans I Have for You_ features two Asian female characters who have both suddenly lost the pathways to success that they had forged for themselves due to very public misdeeds. Early on, we find Shelly retreating home to work in a rundown Florida ...more | |
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| I really enjoyed this lovingly written book. It tells the story of a lonely, isolated-by-choice Japanese American high school teacher who slowly gets drawn back into learning about his family's history as immigrant farmers in Southern California. We ...more | |
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| I thought I would love this book. As with the book's narrator, my mother is French but settled in the United States as an adult after WWII. (My mother also returns to Paris, where the streets are akin to talking monuments from her childhood and promp ...more | |
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| This novel took me by surprise. I thought it was going to be a multi-generational saga about Chinese immigrants in a farming community in South Dakota. But it was much more. It managed to blend compelling details about the immigrant couple's struggle ...more | |
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| This phenomenal historical novel is set in a small fictional town in the upper Midwest during a three-decade period in the mid-1800s. It tells the moving stories of various individuals who have lived (or will live) in Bellwether. We initially encount ...more | |
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| As one who worked as both an anthropologist and part-time Adjunct curator, I was excited to read this excellent book. For a non-fiction book, this is a page-turner, with suspense, a narrative arc, as well as interesting characters. I was impressed by ...more | |
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| Ostensibly a travel memoir, this book is actually a collection of Caver's reflections and recollections about what it means to be a half-Cuban daughter raised in the American South with a ruptured connection to Cuba. I received a complimentary this b ...more | |
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| I was captivated by this compelling and powerful historical novel. Set in East Asia (Korea, China, Japan) and spanning much of the 20th century, the novel follows a couple of generations of a rural Korean family. The novel incorporates elements of ma ...more | |
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| This is an interesting book, filled with a mixture of real people and fictional characters with diverse cultural background. The key character, Ernst, is the son of a German Jewish family and has heavy expectations placed on him. He is also a bit of ...more | |
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| This was a tremendously engaging, suspenseful, and informative non-fiction book. Generally, for my leisure reading, I tend to refer well-researched historical fiction, but this book read like fiction. I was hooked from the first chapter. I thought I ...more | |
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