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The Old Drift

by Namwali Serpell (Goodreads Author)

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Season of Migration to the North

by Tayeb Salih

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Apr 22, 2026 07:17PM

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On Morrison

by Namwali Serpell (Goodreads Author)

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Laura’s Notes & Highlights

About Alice by Calvin Trillin

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Alice loved Bruno’s letter. For her, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.

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Laura’s Quotes

“Her professionalism aside, Nabisase's victory was rigged by an endomorph and a goblin standing in crabgrass, and she would never know it. There are so many lives decided this way.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic

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“Dalia had long believed in Einstein's words—that "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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