A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert: "National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first." -Simon & Schuster
Brothers by Yu Hua: "This remarkable epic of two brothers' rise and fall (and rise, and fall, and rise, etc.) during China's Cultural Revolution (and beyond) is already an international bestseller and award winner. Thanks to his father's habit of peeping into the public toilets, Baldy Li and his family are disgraced in the village where he was born. His mother eventually remarries, and Baldy gains a stepbrother, Song Gang. The two boys are wildly different from one another, but they vow to stick together as brothers throughout their lives, a vow that will be tested countless times as modernity and capitalism bring sweeping changes to their traditional village." -Tower Books
currently listening: Gunshots, whistling, honking, screaming, singing, and car alarms outside my window. Really. It pretty much sounds like the end of the world. Or just the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
-C
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