Episode 129

Our second book for Women in Translation Month is Négar Djavadi's Disoriental. It's a novel about an Iranian family's history, relationships, and tragedies in both Iran and France.

Next book is The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. Find it at your local library or bookstore and read along with us!

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Episode 128.

Our first book for Women in Translation Month is Adania Shibli's Minor Detail. This book contains heavy subject matter including violence and sexual assault, so please be aware of that before listening.

Next book is Disoriental by Négar Djavadi. Find it at your local library or bookstore and read along with us!

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Our second book for July's prompt "Read a Book Under 200 Pages" is the first book translated from Catalan that we've read for the podcast. Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda trippy, nightmarish, but ultimately an interesting read.

Next book is Minor Detail by Adania Shibli. Find it at your local library or bookstore and read along with us!

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Our first book for July's prompt "Read a Book Under 200 Pages" is also the third James Baldwin book we've read for the podcast. Giovanni's Room is charmingly Parisian but also heartbreaking.

Next book is Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda. Find it at your local library or bookstore and read along with us!

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Apologies for the audio on this one!

We read (Becca reread) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood for the June prompt of Reread a Book You Haven't Read in Years. Content warning for discussion of suicide, rape, and sexual assault.

Next book is Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Find it at your local library or bookstore and read along with us!

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First up for June's prompt "Reread a Book You Loved" is Corinne's pick, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Published in 1940, this novel is about several characters in a small southern American town.

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Next book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, as picked by our Patreon.

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Our next award-winner is Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, winner of the International Booker Prize.

Check out photos of Oman in NYT.

Next book is Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, as picked by our Patreon.

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We read Pulitzer Prize-winning novel So Big by Edna Ferber. Beautiful cabbages! Midwest farmers! Rich Chicagoans!

Next book is Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi.

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Our last book for April's prompt "read a book by an author who shares your zodiac sign or birthday" is Corinne's fellow Capricorn, Patricia Highsmith's novel Deep Water.

Next book is So Big by Edna Ferber.

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