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Newsletter #223

March 11, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

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Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

MADE-UP

Luiselli has quickly built a reputation among American readers for her short novels and, especially, for Tell Me How It Ends, her short but blistering little book about working as a translator for Cen... (Tom)

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The Astonishing Color of After

by Emily X.R. Pan

MADE-UP

One of the things I love best about young adult fiction is that it doesn’t shy away from the hard stuff. In Emily X.R. Pan’s impressive debut, just out in paperback, she illustrates an expert handling... (Anika)

Cover of The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

by Bridgett M. Davis

TRUE

You might think a memoir of growing up in the middle of Detroit's illegal underground numbers racket might be gritty and grim, but Davis's story is, pointedly, just the opposite. Told through a loving... (Tom)

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