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The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

by Michael Rutger

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Sep 02, 2026 08:00AM

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What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

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“I want to think that I'm Chinese and American both, but depending on the country, I feel like I'm not enough of either.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

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“We’re children of the diaspora,” Will said. He had grown up in the US, knew that no matter how much he wanted it to be, China would never be home to him. “All we’ve ever known is loss.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

tags: asian-american, diaspora

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“Physical abuse versus emotional neglect? Some might say the neglect is worse. Because it negates your very existence.”
― Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

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“For so long, the past had been a wound still open. Now he could run his finger along the mark those years had left. Scars were nothing but tissue, keratin, a reminder of what the body could endure.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

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“Once, he had thought diaspora was loss, longing, all the empty spaces in him filled with want.... But diaspora was this, too: two cultures that could both be his, history that was waiting to be made.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

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