Marina's Critical Reads

February 21st, 2017

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The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

By: Chiziane, Paulina

Paperback | $18.00 | 9780914671480

After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to...

Baho!: A Novel

By: Rugero, Roland

Paperback | $16.00 | 9781939419620

When Nyamuragi, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions to an appropriate place to relieve himself, his gestures are mistaken as premeditation for rape. To the young woman's community, his fleeing confirms his guilt, setting off a chain reaction of...

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

By: Solnit, Rebecca

Paperback | $15.99 | 9781608465767

"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century."
--The Guardian

"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."
--Bill McKibben

"An elegant reminder that...

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Arendt, Hannah

Paperback | $19.00 | 9780143039884

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann...

The Refugees

By: Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Hardcover | $25.00 | 9780802126399

Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the...

Notes of a Native Son

By: Baldwin, James

Paperback | $16.00 | 9780807006238

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIME
The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity

Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin...

Maus, A Survivor's Tale V1: My Father Bleeds History

By: Spiegelman, Art

Paperback | $16.95 | 9780394747231

The bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's...

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