Barbara Kingsolver __________________________________________ nabs Mello Yello
A Bad Character
Deepti Kapoor, 2014 _________________________________________ Both sides of the crowd are stepping forward, they're about to meet like two sides in war, when all of a sudden there's a terrible scream in the air, as if someone has been stabbed, so terrible that everyone stops in their tracks, the entire crowd freezes still. It's a bicycle …
China Room
Sunjeev Sahota, 2021 "The stars have no pity, the mother's helpless foal, the verandas sag with weeping, and the girls leave their home."
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver. Harper Perennial, 1988 The way I see it, she said, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow. You, me, Earl Wickentot, the President of the United States, and even God Almighty, as far as I can see. The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is …
Inní
Réaltán Ní Leannáin. Eabhlóid, 2021 Sheas sí taobh amuigh d'uimhir 13, Oranje-Nassaukade; seanteach mór ard státúil. Bhí armas os cionn an dorais, agus dáta: 1902. Bhí seantíleanna ar na ballaí sa phóirse, cinn oráiste agus órga. Tháinig aoibh ar Bhrídín. Má bhí traidisiún oráiste acu sa bhaile, ní raibh sé chomh maorga, saibhir leis seo. …
AR LUCH AGUS AR DHUINE
John Steinbeck. LeabharBreac, 2019 Cupla míle taobh theas de Soledad, corann Abhainn Salinas le fána agus caolaíonn sí isteach in aice an bhruaigh, faoin chnoc, áit a moillíonn sí ina linn dhomhain ghlas. Níl uisce na linne sin fuar, óir tá an abhainn tanaí taobh thuas den linn agus tig an t-uisce anuas thar an …
The Rules of Civility
—It's terrific, I admitted. But I can't help thinking how much better it would look on you, given the color of your hair. —If I may be so bold, Miss Kontent, the color of my hair is available to you on the second floor. Two hours later, with the red hair of the Irish, I …
Conditional Citizens
Laila Lalami, Pantheon Books, 2020 Conditional citizenship is characterized by the burden of having to educate white Americans about all the ways in which one is different from them.
The Muse
Jessie BURTON, HarperCollins, 2016 Teresa drank in the image of this girl, in her Aran jumper and old brown shoes, who didn't want her to be lonely, who had a foolish imaginary lover called Boris, and who had come to the ends of Spain to discover she was happy. And then she noticed the dried …
BLAS MEALA
An Bheachaireacht Shimplí Simon Ó CRÓINÍN. Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2019 Cheap muid gur tírín bheag a bhí inti ach thóg sé an chuid is mó den oíche orainn dul ó Caergybi go Y Drenewydd. Nuair a shroich muid Y Drenewydd ar maidin, Breatnais a bhí á labhairt ag chuile dhuine beo a casadh orainn, bail ó …
the Books that Bind 