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Beyond the window of my father's shop, midwinter light skims the snow.

#anita shreve #light on snow #lit #book spine

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The one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother.

#difficult daughters #manju kapur #book spine #lit

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Now that my eldest sister, Maisha, was twelve, none of us knew how to relate to her anymore.

#uwem akpan #lit #book spine #say you're one of them

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Later, when memory was all she had to sustain her, she would come to cherish it: Old Honolulu as it was then, as it would never be again.

#moloka'i #alan brennert #spine

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In the fall of 1995, after resigning from my last academic post, I decides to indulge myself and fulfill a dream.

#reading lolita in tehran #Azar Nafisi #spine

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"Darlings! Welcome! And you must be Danielle?"

#the emperor's children #claire messud #spine

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In 1972 I was sixteen - young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions.

#the historian #elizabeth kostova #spine

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Papa explains the war like this: "When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful."

#when the elephants dance #tess uriza holthe #spine

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For the Desk of:

His Excellency Wen Jiabao

The Premier's Office

Beijing

Capital of the Freedom-loving Nation of China

#the white tiger #aravind adiga #spine

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Snowman wakes before dawn.

#margaret atwood #oryx and crake #spine

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Suddenly they are everywhere, the little girls from China.

#the lost daughters of china #karin evans #spine

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There was something odd about it, despite its plain and inconsequential appearance.

#the unexpected son #shobhan bantwal #spine

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All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

#the inheritance of loss #kiran desai #lit #spine

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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China.

#wild swans #jung chang #lit #spine

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I used to be human once.

#indra sinha #animal's people #spine #novel #lit

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He stands up next to the girl's body.

#the fig eater #jody shields #spine #novel

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In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

#the tiger's wife #tea obreht #spine #lit