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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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On Morrison

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Laura’s Notes & Highlights

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

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We were like houseplants. We made everything up, and, as it later turned out, everything we thought we knew was nothing but figments of our imaginations: the West. Capitalism. The Russian people. We lived in a world of mirages. The Russia ...more

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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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