Yesterday I met someone interesting, a person who came to this country many years ago, fleeing, with her family, the Yugoslavia of Josip Tito. We chatted. I mostly listened. At one point, I asked if she had ever read My Ántonia by Willa Cather. Her eyes lit and our conversation took off with a connection [...]
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Immigrant Song
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2009 Reading List
2666 - Roberto Bolaño ~ Royal Highness - Thomas Mann ~ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz ~ Mr. Summer's Story - Patrick Süskind ~The Baron in The Trees - Italo Calvino ~ The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford ~ Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler ~ The Awakening - Kate Chopin ~ Everyman - Philip Roth ~ The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald ~ Black Dogs - Ian McEwan ~ The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald ~ The Crimson Petal and The White - Michel Faber ~ Quicksand - Emmanuel Bove ~ Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal ~ Twilight/Moonbeam Alley - Stefan Zweig ~ The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler ~ Bright Center of Heaven - William Maxwell ~ They Came Like Swallows - William Maxwell ~ Job: The Story of a Simple Man - Joseph Roth ~ Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson ~ Money - Martin Amis ~ Florence Nightingale - Mark Bostridge ~ Four Letters of Love - Niall Williams ~ Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton ~ Franny & Zooey - JD Salinger ~ Molly Fox's Birthday - Deirdre Madden ~ One City - Smith, Rankin, Welsh ~ Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys ~ Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer ~ Colony - Hugo Wilcken ~ The Great Lover - Jill Dawson ~ Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig ~ If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino ~ This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes ~ The Soul of Kindness - Elizabeth Taylor ~ A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr ~ Villette - Charlotte Brontë ~ Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel ~ The Debut - Anita Brookner ~ The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh ~ Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver ~ The Sportswriter - Richard Ford ~ The Fall - Albert Camus ~ The Outermost House - Henry Beston ~ My Ántonia - Willa Cather ~ The View From Castle Rock - Alice Munro ~ Slowness - Milan Kundera ~ Clockers - Richard Price ~
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