Otherness


Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
Americanah
I Who Have Never Known Men
A Little Life
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Crying in H Mart
Convenience Store Woman
The Underground Railroad
Lord of the Flies
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
2020 The Animal Uprising, And So It Begins by Colin C. EvansThe Chain by Robin LamontAnimal Listeners by R. AveenBarn 8 by Deb Olin UnferthBête by Adam Roberts
The Lives of Animals (Fiction)
102 books — 4 voters
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoCirce by Madeline MillerPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Outsider Women
162 books — 13 voters

Louis Yako
We learn from traveling that it makes a huge difference to simply acknowledge and greet each other; to ask whenever possible or appropriate, whether someone is alright; and most importantly to foil the plans and intentions of fear and warmongers using every medium and platform to get us to distrust, hate, and be afraid of each other, or to beware of strangers." [From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024] ...more
Louis Yako

Aleksandar Hemon
Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath. The bath is full of German businessmen with towels around their waists, huffing and puffing, but every once in a while a cell phone rings and they pull their phone out from under the towel and say, Bitte? Mujo seems to be the only one without a cell phone, so he goes to the bathroom and stuffs toilet paper up his butt. He walks back out, a long trail of toilet paper behind him. So a German says, you ha ...more
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

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