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November 2017 - Sing, Unburied, Sing
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October 2017 - Little Fires Everywhere
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One family's struggle to achieve and hold on to the American Dream as immigration issues lurk like a thief in the night. A familiar and relevant reality of our present day society. I was looking forward to reading this debut novel but sad to say I wasn't overly impressed. Good not great.
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This modern immigrant story explores how the promise of America both empowers and disappoints, holds some fast despite unending hardships and reveals itself as an allusion despite success. This is a story about the tension between the comfort of family and familiarity and the hope of the far off dream. The Cameroonian family at the heart of this novel is not fleeing war, persecution or crushing poverty, but has deliberately violated the terms of their VISA, live in a roach infested N. Y. tenemen
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