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'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane
Gay 'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year'
Jia Tolentino 'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively
funny' Andrew Sean Greer 'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . .
. Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon 'A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and
brilliant war cry' Chris Power How many times have we heard that
reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often
have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our
bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar
words - beautiful, aspirational - are sometimes even true. But
award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for
our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she
moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people
in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately
more rewarding work. How to Read Now explores the politics and
ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something
better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and
our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny,
galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale
questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as
vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics,
building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded
writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and
toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in
everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong
Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once
a deeply personal and searching history of one woman's reading
life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our
globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to
Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form
of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite
surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and
create space for a riskier intimacy - within ourselves, and with
each other.
America Is in the Heart is a semi-autobiographical novel from the
celebrated author Carlos Bulosan. Beginning with the young Carlos'
difficult childhood in the rural Philippines where he and his
family face immense hardship, this gripping story follows the
narrator's tumultuous journey in search of a better life in
America. This is an eye-opening account of the injustices, abuse
and discrimination faced by immigrants in post-Second World War
America.
'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane
Gay 'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year'
Jia Tolentino 'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively
funny' Andrew Sean Greer 'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . .
. Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon 'A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and
brilliant war cry' Chris Power How many times have we heard that
reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often
have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our
bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar
words - beautiful, aspirational - are sometimes even true. But
award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for
our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she
moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people
in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately
more rewarding work. How to Read Now explores the politics and
ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something
better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and
our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny,
galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale
questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as
vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics,
building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded
writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and
toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in
everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong
Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once
a deeply personal and searching history of one woman's reading
life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our
globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to
Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form
of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite
surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and
create space for a riskier intimacy - within ourselves, and with
each other.
Longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018 Longlisted for Elle's
Big Book Award, 2018 Evening Standard's Wander List Guide to 2019
Getaways How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime?
When Hero De Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in
the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who
has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area,
knows not to ask about the first and second. And his younger wife,
Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera
family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero
why her hands seem to scream with hurt at the steering wheel of the
car she drives to collect her from school, and only Rosalyn, the
fierce but open-hearted beautician, has any hope of bringing Hero
back from the dead.
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