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Czechia 1: The Book I Hated Got Me Talking with my Daughters (opens the original)
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I appreciate every reader and think of you when I’m hard at work doing the research and revising drafts. If you can afford to support it with a paid subscription or a tip, please consider it. Any support helps so much!I usually DNF books I don’t like. Sometimes I’m judgmental and drop a book too quickly and later, if I give it more of a chance, I discover to my chagrin that I like it. But this time was different, I didn’t stop. The book was grotesque, and I was morbidly fascinated. In the days a
Guadeloupe: Citizen of the World (opens the original)
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When I was ten, I gave a speech in front of my school at the end of term. Every class in the upper grades nominated two speakers, and I was one of them. The assembly was held in June, not long before summer break. I have painful memories of that summer; without school as a buffer, all I had was my difficult family life. But I remember the power of standing in front of the assembled, believing in my words. My hair was in two, tight braids, I wore round-toed shoes when everyone else’s had pointy t
Croatia: Balkan Noir and Oedipus (opens the original)
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She “shamelessly used us and embarrassed us.” She “diabolically attaches deviant inventions, sexual perversions, and various dark failings to people who served as material for her tendentious novel.” And “a bad novel...quite unexpectedly, given the writer’s reputation.”That was the nonplussed hometown reaction to Ivana Bodrožić’s second novel, a literary thriller. I would be crushed; that’s why I started out writing histor
Côte d'Ivoire: Beads on a Necklace (opens the original)
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Véronique Tadjo writes like no one else I’ve read.Born in 1955, she was a child of relative privilege, growing up middle-class and well-educated in a country where most people were illiterate. Her mother was a French painter and sculptor, her Ivorian father the president of the Chamber of Accounts, the body responsible for auditing public finances. She’s lived in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), France, Nigeria, Mexico, the UK, Kenya, and South Africa. Like her mother
South Korea 3: Queer Among the Christians (opens the original)
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The outskirts of the city, rows of houses packed in like rotting teeth along small alleys. A two-story house just like its owner: creaking joints, decaying bones, in the process of keeling over. A house left behind by a world that grows more fearless by the day...The only thing over which I can claim control and exercise ownership. (from Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin)These are the thoughts of the unnamed narrator in Concerning My Daughter. It occurs on the first or second page (I’m not s
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