Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022, 258 pages A story told by several family members, Calling for a Blanket Dance centres around Ever, a man with a Cherokee-Kiowa mother (Turtle) and a Mexican father (Everado). But it is also a story about the Geimausaddles, Ever’s family. Turtle’s mother, Lena Stop, is a Cherokee, …
Month: March 2026
Telling Me My Stories—Fragments of a Himalayan Childhood: Kunzang Choden
Published by Bloomsbury, 2025, 273 pages “As I walk through each room, I immediately become immersed in reminiscences of my parents, my brothers, relatives, visitors and attendants, their lives and mine, their stories and the stories of those who lived here before us. Lives from the past can be invoked in each room and through …
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Nonsense: Christopher Reid
Published by Faber & Faber, 2012, 116 pages This book of poems is a quartet, with the first three poems narrating stories, and the last a collection of poems about everyday life that spans a day. The first—and the longest—poem is Professor Winterthorn’s Journey, about a widowed academic who gets himself an invitation to a …
Rediscovering Travel—A Guide for the Globally Curious: Seth Kugel
Published by Liveright, 2018, 320 pages In this book, Seth Kugel takes us back to the thrill of discovery when we travel, which we seem to have lost in this time of information overload. Kugel retreats from our hurried, switched-on way of functioning, where we consult online resources for the perfect restaurant before we go …
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A Florentine Death: Michele Giuttari
Translated from Italian by Howard CurtisPublished by Abacus, 2007, 357 pages. Original version published in 2005. A man is brutally murdered in a shop in Greve, a town near Florence. Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara, head of the Squadra Mobile, is called to investigate. The victim, Stefano Micali, worked at a shop selling religious artefacts. He …
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