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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...

Bird è un ragazzino di dodici anni che vive a Cambridge, Massachusetts, con suo padre, un ex linguista ora impiegato nella biblioteca universitaria di fronte a casa. Sua madre, Margaret, una poetessa di origini cinesi, li ha abbandonati quando lui aveva solo nove anni in circostanze misteriose, dopo che una sua poesia è diventata il manifesto dei dissidenti contro le leggi in vigore. Leggi autoritarie, volte a preservare "la cultura e le tradizioni...

Lidiya tsentr vsesvitu simyi Li. Dovkola neyi obertayutʹsya usi mriyi, spodivannya, slova i vchynky. Maty napered vyznachyla yiyi dolyu: svoyu blakytnooku divchynku vona bachytʹ likarkoyu, dorosloyu, upevnenoyu v sobi zhinkoyu. Kupuye yiy knyzhky, dopomahaye robyty domashni zavdannya, berezhe, mov koshtovnyy skarb, i navitʹ ne puskaye z domu. Batʹko movchky poturaye druzhyni. Inshi dvoye ditey rostutʹ u tini vyplekanoho batʹkamysonechka. Ta...

Pislya ekonomichnoyi kryzy do vlady u SSHA prykhodytʹ avtorytarnyy uryad i zaprovadzhuye PAKT, movlyav, zadlyazberezhennya amerykansʹkoyi kulʹtury. Naspravdi zh tsey zakon dozvolyaye zabyraty ditey u batʹkiv-dysydentiv i asymilyuvaty yikh upravylʹnomu seredovyshchi. Khlopchyk Ptakh tezh opynyayetʹsya pid zahrozoyu cherez svoyu zovnishnistʹ. Zrostayuchy pid nadmirnoyu opikoyu batʹka, vin nestrymno khoche diznatysya, shcho stalosya z yoho matiryu-poetesoyu....

Jennifer Egan and best-selling Celeste Ng come together for a compelling discussion of their new novels, Manhattan Beach and Little Fires Everywhere, two stories of family secrets and the children who discover them. Performances by Cindy Cheung (Mistress America) and Susannah Rogers (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...

A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.

A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals.