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by Michael Malone
Afterparties, a collection of nine somewhat connected short stories detailing the lives of Cambodian-Americans in California, was written by Anthony Veasna So. One can’t help but read the book with a sense of sadness, because So died, at 28, of
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By Michael Malone Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story is U2 singer Bono’s life story, set amidst the framework of 40 U2 songs, including old ones like “Out of Control” and “I Will Follow”, and newer stuff such as “Breathe” and
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By Michael Malone Maybe you’re like me. Your kids bring home a novel they’re reading for school, and you start to think about when you read it in school, and you wonder how it holds up. It happened to me
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What I’m reading, and why By Michael Malone I break from my column’s moniker to share about a non-fiction book, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, by Hisham Matar. It is about Matar’s journey home to Libya
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By Michael Malone And the Mountains Echoed comes from Khaled Hosseini, whose novels are set in Afghanistan. The book offers a unique structure–ten or so tangentially connected stories that form an unconventional novel, each one featuring a character or two
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By Michael Malone Someone Else’s Life, a thriller from Lyn Liao Butler, is about Annie, who has recently arrived in Hawaii with her husband and young son, following a frightening incident back in Westchester County. That Annie lived in Westchester
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