I'm back with another installment of What Liz Has Been Reading Lately, featuring Thomas King's excellent book, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, and Michael Lewis's latest book, The Premonition. Both are definitely recommended!

To find out more about Thomas King, check out this profile from CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/books/thomas-king-is-hopeful-that-his-writing-has-changed-the-world-but-he-s-still-not-sure-1.5795015

And be sure to look up the book I discuss here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-inconvenient-indian

Michael Lewis is notoriously social media averse, but you can learn more about him and his work at his web site: http://michaellewiswrites.com/#top

Both books he's written in the last five years are among my top nonfiction favorites of all time! They make it easy to understand how, when, and why government is an important part of our overall health and progress as a country. 

The Fifth Risk: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393357455
The Premonition: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393881554

Learn more about the characters I mention:
Carter Mecher: https://www.phc.health/team-member/carter-mecher-md
Charity Dean: https://www.phc.health/team-member/charity-dean-md-mph-tm-2
Joe DeRisi: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/joe.derisi
DeRisi's Lab: http://derisilab.ucsf.edu/

Either would make a great Christmas gift! And while you're at it, why not shop independent bookstores! You can do so using those links or support local bookstores at https://bookshop.org/.

Next week, I'll be talking about an excellent book I'm currently about halfway through: Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come, all about introverting, by Jessica Pan. And maybe also some more from Caste, Teaching Machines, and/or Tarana Burke's searing memoir, Unbound, all of which I'm in the middle of right now!

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