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The Hungry Tide is about love, language, and land, and a masterful story of adventure and romance. You will literally "inhabit" this novel with its lush descriptions of the backwaters of India's treacherous Sundarban Archipelago. The islands provide a colorful backdrop to the unfolding story of: Piya - A young Indian-American marine biologist The terrible beauty of the tide country - with its maneating tigers, cyclones, river dolphins, crocodiles, and the ever-present tides -suggests the gragility of human endeavor when compared to the power of Earth. This was Ed's favorite book of 2005!
They are really quite amazing birds, whether you love them or think of them as rats with wings. You'll gain a newfound respect for this avian success story as Blechman explores the bird's strength, homing ability, and its interactions with human beings as messenger, pest, food source, and target. There's even recipes if you feel like cooking after a trip to the park. Robert recommends this fast-paced, far ranging, fascinating work
Witold Rybczynski excels in this sort of narrative nonfiction. This is an absorbing look at real estate development - from cornfield to completion, thru all the complexities of planning, zoning, financing and building. Why do suburban subdivisions look the way they do and how do they come to be? t's all here - an unlikely topic for a gripping read, but Ed LOVED it. Ed recommends.
Check out this fun, hard to put down publishing sensation by artist Miranda July. As with her earlier videos and performance art, July expertly amplifies the tensions of everyday exchanges. The result is a slightly dark and awkward sensibility counteracted by utopian idealism. July's stories often use a mode of address similar in structure to pornography - i.e. her narratives alternate between an intense sense of intimacy and the generic coldness of email and corporate advertising. The combination is addictive. Recommended.
All his life Mendelsohn knew that he had relatives who died in the Holocaust. When he decides to find out as much as he can about these missing people, he embarks on a quest that takes him all over the world, from Poland to Australia. Over the course of years, through conversations, chance, research, the kindness of strangers and quirks of fate, Mendelsohn's lost are in a small, heart-rending way, found. His personal saga makes the vast unknowable, unfathomable six million, for knife-sharp moments, viserally real. Robert recommends. |
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THE HUNGRY TIDE by Amitav Ghosh.
PIGEONS by Andrew Blechman.
LAST HARVESTby Witold Rybczynski.
NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU by Miranda July.
THE LOST by Daniel Mendelsohn.|
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