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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

by Hwang Bo-Reum

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The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)

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Cut From the Same Cloth?: Muslim Women on Life in Britain

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“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves? A story, after all, is a kind of swallowing. To open a mouth, in speech, is to leave only the bones, which remain untold.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“From then on, I would fill in our blanks, our silences, stutters, whenever I could. I code switched. I took off our language and wore my English, like a mask, so that others would see my face, and therefore yours.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“Some demeaned it as “bumming around at home,” while others glorified it as “work that sustains life,” but none tried to calculate its monetary value. Probably because the moment you put a price on something, someone has to pay.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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“To destroy a people, then, is to set them back in time.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts, and customs had not, which meant the world hadn’t actually changed at all. She mulled over Daehyun’s idea that registering as legally married changes the way you feel about each other. Do laws and institutions change values, or do values drive laws and institutions?”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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