FP Staff List: What We're Reading This Week
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Craft in the Real World
By Matthew Salesses (Catapult)
“A real eye opener . . . It unpacks the seemingly 'universal' lessons we learn about what makes fiction good to reveal how whiteness and maleness have shaped those values.”—Kumari Devarajan, Code Switch, NPR
—Amy
The Salt Eaters
by Toni Cade Bambara (Vintage)
"A book full of marvels." —The New Yorker
—Rachel
The Office of Historical Corrections
By Danielle Evans (Riverhead Books)
"Danielle Evans demonstrates, once again, that she is the finest short story writer working today."—Roxane Gay, New York Times-bestselling author of Difficult Women and Bad Feminist
—Yannise
Braiding Sweetgrass
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
"In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer tackles everything from sustainable agriculture to pond scum as a reflection of her Potawatomi heritage, which carries a stewardship 'which could not be taken by history: the knowing that we belonged to the land.' . . . It's a book absorbed with the unfolding of the world to observant eyes--that sense of discovery that draws us in."—NPR
—Jisu
Yolk
By Mary H.K. Choi (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
"Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy." —Entertainment Weekly
—Lucia
Gay Bar
By Jeremy Atherton Lin (Little Brown and Company)
"Jeremy Atherton Lin's personal history of queer nightlife is shot with vibrant intellectual adrenaline. With keen original insight, he celebrates the gay bar as a site of ribald, sensuous, and urgent resistance. A must-read for all."—Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS
—Nick
The Sympathizer
By Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic)
"What a story . . . [An] absorbing, elegantly written book . . . If you are an American, of any culture or color, you will benefit from reading this book which offers, in exquisite thought and phrase, the multi-layered experience of a war most Americans have blotted out of consciousness, suppressed, or willfully ignored. I've been waiting to read this book for decades."—Alice Walker, author of THE COLOR PURPLE
—Lauren
The Committed
By Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic)
"A sumptuous sequel to THE SYMPATHIZER . . . The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist captures, with grace and restraint, the foibles of two young men caught in a duel between East and West."—O, the Oprah Magazine
—Jackie