Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Combining an immersive exploration of nature with captivatingly beautiful prose, Jessica J. Lee emb…
Want to Read $ 11.99"A taxi driver asked me why my Mandarin was so good for a foreigner. “My mother is from Taiwan,"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"And where I couldn’t find words, I fell to other languages: to plants, to history, to landscape."-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"This is not a place I could simply learn, and it is not mine anyway. I belong in a forest in a much bigger, colder country. I am not built for heat any more than my mother was built for winter. I speak in broken tones, making half sense to everyone I meet in Taiwan. My worlds exist in halves."-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"His was a slow leaving. He had resisted it. In his letter were parts I had never seen of the smiling, quiet man who had made spaghetti or folded dumplings, who had danced giddy with me in stacked shoes at holiday parties. They were parts left in Taiwan, pieces he shared with no one, things he had lost in China. They belonged to those places, and the person he had been when all of him was there."-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
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3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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By: Kai Cheng Thom
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Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
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By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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4. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
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5. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
6. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
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"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
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By: Thomas King
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more
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4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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4.16
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"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
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10. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
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"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
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3.88
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
By: Jessica J. Lee
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Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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