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The Land and Its People

by David Sedaris

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The Dance Tree

by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Goodreads Author)

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The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld

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“For me, fiction is when research meets compassion; I believe this is often why facts don't change people's minds, but stories do.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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“Women were built to endure the rules men make.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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“Being a mother must be the saddest yet most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.”
― Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

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“Maybe there's no such thing as soulmates. Maybe there are only people who trust each other enough to begin something without being assured of the end.”
― Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

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“... for the weak and the ineffectual, who cannot rise to the dignity and nobility of tragedy, or the luxury of irony, for whom even ordinary acts of will are impossible, melodrama is a substitute. People deprived of the capacity to change their fate can only repetitively lament this fact, and since they belong to the vast majority of the world's population, melodrama should be taken seriously for its world-historical impact.”
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