Summer 2021 Reading

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua. (from Bookshop.org)

DAWN paints a remarkable portrait of life behind the headlines in Turkey and the Middle East - in all its hardship and adversity, freedom and hope. (from Bookshop.org)

Providing in many cases the first and only English language translations of acclaimed poets from the world over, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry is a unique treasure and resource. . . (from Bookshop.org)

Nathacha Appanah investigates the life of [an] artist, the question of cultural differences within a marriage, and the creation and the destruction of a family.(from Bookshop.org)

"Spain's Great Untranslated" presents twelve contemporary Spanish masters whose dazzling work has been unavailable to the English-language world. (from Bookshopl.org)

This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a grotesque, unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly).

“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. (from Bookshop.org)

Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist--and confidante--to the wealthy women of the upper class. (from Bookshop.org)

Based on the author's true story, this is the account of Iraqi refugee Samir, who spends nine years in an asylum center in the Netherlands. (from Bookshop.org)