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Newsletter #147

July 31, 2017

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of The End of Eddy
Cover of Returning to Reims

The End of Eddy

by Édouard Louis

Returning to Reims

by Didier Eribon

In the book world, Hillbilly Elegy has achieved that status of "commonly understood shorthand used to describe (and sell) other books." And I'm not immune to its invocation: after seeing ... (Liz)

Cover of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

by Kao Kalia Yang

TRUE Phinney by Post #32

I'm not sure I've ever read a book that had a stronger, more cohesive sense of family than this one. Yang's memoir of her extended family's passage from Laos, where the Hmong, a tight-knit ethnic mino... (Tom)

Cover of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

by Sherman Alexie

TRUE

Sherman Alexie's memoir—an unsparing, grief-torn, angry, and admiring portrait of his late mother that is equally unsparing toward himself—seems like one of the must-read books of the year, especially... (Tom)

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