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South Brunswick Reads 2022: SB Reads for Change / Adult Fiction
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Lost children archive by Valeria LuiselliThe award-winning author of Tell Me How It Ends traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents.
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One part woman by Perumal Murugan Wryly amusing, fable-like, and deeply poignant, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage strained by the expectations of others, and an attack on the rigid rules of caste and tradition that continue to constrict opportunity and happiness today.
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The Sicilian method by Andrea CamilleriInspector Montalbano combs through an unpopular director’s scrupulously detailed notebooks, plays, dossiers and actor critiques to find a connection between two murders in Sicily’s theater district.
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Hullabaloo in the guava orchard
by Kiran Desai
A debut novel tells the story of young Sampath Chawla, a postal worker who never feels as though he fits into the small Indian town into which he is born, and who one day climbs up a tree, only to become a famous holy man.
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Down the rabbit hole by Juan Pablo VillalobosTochtli, the son of a drug baron, lives in a lavish palace hideout along with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants and corrupt politicians, but still nurtures childhood obsessions with animals and samurai.
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Revolution Sunday : a novel
by Wendy Guerra
After traveling to Spain to accept a prestigious award, Cleo, a promising young writer, returns home to Cuba where she finds herself under constant surveillance by the government until she meets and falls in love with a Hollywood filmmaker who shows her the truth through his lens.
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Hippie
by Paulo Coelho
A Brazilian man and a Dutch woman embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation experiments of the Civil Rights era.
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The vanishing half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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In the time of the butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep "accident."
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The mountains sing : a novel
by Phan Quáð¿ Mai Nguyá»…n
Years after a family is forced by Vietnam’s Communist Land Reforms to abandon their farm, a granddaughter comes of age as her loved ones depart for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Behold the dreamers : a novel
by Imbolo Mbue
An immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession.
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The leavers
by Lisa Ko
An award-winning debut novel follows the experiences of a Chinese youth who when his undocumented worker mother fails to return home is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.
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The kite runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Traces the unlikely friendship of Amir, a wealthy Afghanistani youth, and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of the nation's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. Reader's Guide available.
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark HaddonAfter stumbling upon his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork and being blamed for the killing, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, decides to track down the real killer and turns to his detective hero to help him with the investigation, which brings him face to face with a family crisis.
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Americanah : a novel
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Separated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later.
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What If? : Short Stories to Spark Inclusion & Diversity Dialogue
by Steve L. Robbins
This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved classic features 10 new stories written by Dr. Robbins that help readers gain deeper insight into the role our brains play in shaping our thoughts and actions, and what we can do to be more curious and open-minded in our diverse world.
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