![]() ![]() I can’t wait to hear your suggestions, and to see which titles YOU choose to read. ![]() From a distance, she appears beautiful, but if you have the misfortune to see her in your vehicle’s mirror, her face is either obscured or battered, bloody. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the University of Rochester’s Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. This is a story my grandmother tells me: In Metro Manila, there’s a road haunted by a ghost, a woman in white who died one lonely night near a balete tree. Need ideas for this category? There are so many good ones, which is why I’ve included a whopping twenty-five titles here. Mia Alvar’s collection of short stories, In the Country, won the PEN/Robert W. Why? The books that fulfill this category automatically include a diversity of plot lines that make for a good story: the clash of cultures, the journey tale, the confusion of identities, the pang of homesickness, the nostalgic look to the past.ĭepending on which title you choose, this could be your opportunity to take a journey you’ll never actually live, to travel back in time, to better understand your neighbors, or to experience your own land through radically different eyes. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s powerful debut collection explores the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. The sixth category for the 2017 Reading Challenge-for those of you who are stretching yourselves this year-is “a book about the immigrant experience.” In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home. ![]()
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