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Susan Lewallen Another book set in Tanzania! But the POV will be an American woman in the field of public health. I won't try again to write in the POV of someone fr…moreAnother book set in Tanzania! But the POV will be an American woman in the field of public health. I won't try again to write in the POV of someone from a different culture than my own. (less)
Susan Lewallen I worked in various countries of Africa as a doctor for 20 years. I loved it but it had highs and lows, as does everything. During the lows, I confess…moreI worked in various countries of Africa as a doctor for 20 years. I loved it but it had highs and lows, as does everything. During the lows, I confess, I was always more stimulated to tell my stories. One afternoon, annoyed about a particularly nasty doctor I'd met, I started imagining the kinds of things he might do. That's how I got started, but it didn't take long before the process and the many things I loved about work caught up with me and inserted themselves into the book. Some of the incidents in the story happened and some were made up. The characters were made up. Fiction writing is fun that way.(less)
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Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman
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This story is centered around an enamel locket, once the possession of a Hungarian Jewish suffragette in the early 1900s. It’s told from several perspectives. In the beginning, we know that the locket is owned by an old soldier, Jack, who, immediatel ...more
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" This story is centered around an enamel locket, once the possession of a Hungarian Jewish suffragette in the early 1900s. It’s told from several persp ...more "
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I loved Hala Alyan’s debut novel, Salt Houses, so I was eager to read The Arsonist’s City. Alyan is a Palestinian American clinical psychologist and her two novels are both well-informed diaspora stories of families from the Middle East. In this one, ...more
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This story explores the way that several individuals from two families joined by marriage cope with their grief when tragedy strikes on the wedding day. I won’t try to describe what happened. The setting is Maine, where one family is year -rounders, ...more
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As I was reading this, I vacillated, thinking I’d rate it 3, 4 or 5 stars. I enjoyed the beginning, felt bogged down and a bit irritated in the middle, then wanted to finish to see what happened. It’s the story of a 40-ish African American woman, Ni ...more
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