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Rachel Cusk • Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)
“Sweet keys of sun in the dusk of the toaster,” Anna said one morning at breakfast. I looked up at her, briefly, but made nothing of it, distracted as I was with the morning paper. The day continued quietly as we went about our routines, and other things she said didn’t cause concern. But in the afternoon, as she came in from the garden and wiped h
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emaciation
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Her characters are always understated and avoid any interiority, which, as Jane Hu writes in The New Yorker, has become a fairly typical literary affect that signals Asianness (in fact, more East Asianness than South Asianness) to readers.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
little more than the literal clothes on her back would have taken a major
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.
Chloe Benjamin • The Immortalists
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
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