Earlier this year I read My Father's Paradise (Algonquin, 2008) Ariel Sabar's thrilling memoir of his Jewish Kurdish Iraqi father. As Sabar writes in his next book, Heart of the City (DeCapo, 2011), My Father's Paradise is as much a tribute to his father as Heart of the City is … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Feeding on Dreams
In full back-to-school spirit, I chose to read Ariel Dorfman's latest memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) last week. It's not the lightest of books, but one I'd highly recommend if you have a penchant for international … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Eating Smoke
After waiting all summer for the release of Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent into Drug Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland (Blacksmith Books, 2011), I was elated to receive it this Monday. Averaging 100 pages a day, I finished it today despite chasing after four kids (I'm … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Postcards from Nam
This week I read a haunting novella by Uyen Nicole Duong about pre-1975 Saigon and Vietnamese exiles post-1975. Postcards from Nam (Amazon Encore, 2011) is the third installment in Duong's three-book series.A Harvard-trained lawyer, Mimi was living in Washington, DC, in her … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Crossing Centuries
I've always been fascinated by international car travel. And I'm not talking about driving from France to Germany or from the US to Canada. Yawn. I mean real cross continental car travel. A friend's mother once drove from Kuwait to London. The world really seems small when you … [Read more...]
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