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Drown 76 reviews
Junot Díaz
Riverhead Trade, 1997
immigrant stories about the American myth
+ Great Debut
This is the first book by the 2008 Pulitzer-winning author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." It's a collection of short stories that are set between the 1970's and 1990's in the Dominican Republic, the Bronx and in a variety of Northern NJ towns.
In "Ysrael," two brothers walk to ...
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In the Lake of the Woods189 reviews
Tim O'Brien
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
The mystery of the human heart
+ interesting... another hit from O'Brien
+ In the Mind of PTSD
+ Required reading
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Miniatures 6 reviews
Norah Labiner
Coffee House Press, 2002
Devious
+ The novel lives!
+ A compelling story of discovery and coming of age
Norah Labiner's second novel is an oddity, a labyrinth, and, in its own strange way, a masterpiece. The book may be described as the confession or narrative of Fern Jacobi, who is trying to tell the story of the time she spent cleaning house for a Ted Hughes-like poet and his second wife on the ...
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Coming of Age in Mississippi98 reviews
Anne Moody
Dell, 1992
Descriptive, emotional, engaging
+ Jackson, Ms.
+ Coming of Age
+ Amazing. A MUST read.
+ Not angry... Just historically honest
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Rena's Promise 43 reviews
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
Beacon Press, 1996
Excellent reading!
+ Amazing Rena and amazing struggle to live
+ Unbelievable but True
+ Courageous but a dead giveaway
+ Best memoir
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 11 reviews
Maxine Hong Kingston
Vintage, 1990
Memoir of a Playwright Among Ghosts?
+ Fantastic
+ Some Gems, Lots of Murk.
It is hard to believe that "Tripmaster Monkey: His ... Book" is by the same author who wrote "The Woman Warrior." Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" is her first "novel" (though by no means her first foray into fiction), and it is easy to see why there was a nine year gap between this book ...
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)11 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Books, 2003
Sense of Self
+ Anna Karenina
+ The Greatest Novel of all Time
+ Fate and love, ultimately lead to Anna's undoing
+ A pleasure to read
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Snow Country47 reviews
Yasunari Kawabata
Vintage, 1996
Exploration of futile emotion
+ A Beautiful Story Set In Snow Country
+ Book Order
+ the master
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)546 reviews
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
A Wowing Historical Fiction Classic
+ A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
+ Great read
+ My favorite book of all time
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Caramelo76 reviews
Sandra Cisneros
Vintage, 2003
Completely satisfied
+ The MBC Abbreviated Review
+ beautiful!
+ Life, Love, and Familia on Both Sides of the Border
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)11 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Books, 2003
Sense of Self
+ Anna Karenina
+ The Greatest Novel of all Time
+ Fate and love, ultimately lead to Anna's undoing
+ A pleasure to read
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Caramelo76 reviews
Sandra Cisneros
Vintage, 2003
Completely satisfied
+ The MBC Abbreviated Review
+ beautiful!
+ Life, Love, and Familia on Both Sides of the Border
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book11 reviews
Maxine Hong Kingston
Vintage, 1990
Memoir of a Playwright Among Ghosts?
+ Fantastic
+ Some Gems, Lots of Murk.
It is hard to believe that "Tripmaster Monkey: His ... Book" is by the same author who wrote "The Woman Warrior." Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" is her first "novel" (though by no means her first foray into fiction), and it is easy to see why there was a nine year gap between this book ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)546 reviews
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
A Wowing Historical Fiction Classic
+ A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
+ Great read
+ My favorite book of all time
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Drown76 reviews
Junot Díaz
Riverhead Trade, 1997
immigrant stories about the American myth
+ Great Debut
This is the first book by the 2008 Pulitzer-winning author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." It's a collection of short stories that are set between the 1970's and 1990's in the Dominican Republic, the Bronx and in a variety of Northern NJ towns.
In "Ysrael," two brothers walk to ...
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Rena's Promise43 reviews
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
Beacon Press, 1996
Excellent reading!
+ Amazing Rena and amazing struggle to live
+ Unbelievable but True
+ Courageous but a dead giveaway
+ Best memoir
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Miniatures6 reviews
Norah Labiner
Coffee House Press, 2002
Devious
+ The novel lives!
+ A compelling story of discovery and coming of age
Norah Labiner's second novel is an oddity, a labyrinth, and, in its own strange way, a masterpiece. The book may be described as the confession or narrative of Fern Jacobi, who is trying to tell the story of the time she spent cleaning house for a Ted Hughes-like poet and his second wife on the ...
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Snow Country47 reviews
Yasunari Kawabata
Vintage, 1996
Exploration of futile emotion
+ A Beautiful Story Set In Snow Country
+ Book Order
+ the master
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Coming of Age in Mississippi98 reviews
Anne Moody
Dell, 1992
Descriptive, emotional, engaging
+ Jackson, Ms.
+ Coming of Age
+ Amazing. A MUST read.
+ Not angry... Just historically honest
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In the Lake of the Woods189 reviews
Tim O'Brien
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
The mystery of the human heart
+ interesting... another hit from O'Brien
+ In the Mind of PTSD
+ Required reading
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