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Babi that's awful about the library!
I'm in one of those terrible slumps in reading, nothing seems to suit, am totally turned off fiction, can't think of any non fiction that interests, just stuck! I started another Elizabeth Taylor the other night, not quite the thing either. Bookmarks Magazine has a section called Have You Read which is about, this month, Other Cultures, Other Points of View.
I think this is what I want, I'm spoiled after reading Down the Nile for something like it.
Here are a couple which look good:
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. This is a novel about an 80 year old brilliant former math professor who suffers a car accident and has an 80 minute short term memory. Every day his housekeeper and her son must reintroduce themselves to him. "The book celebrates both the joy of learning and the joy of supportive relationships---even unconventional ones."
Then there's The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar, two women from different classes in India: privilege and poverty. That sounds interesting.
Then there's the Non Fiction Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder, non fiction about how Deo a young medical student from Burundi trapped in the Rwanda violence came to the US, with $200, slept in Central Park, finished his degree and returned to Burundi to help. I hear it's out of this world, and true.
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado, about a family's emigration to the US from Cairo, that sounds interesting. I love that sort of thing,.
And A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz, about a woman (this is a novel) who sets out to marry into wealth in New York City. It really sounds good, too.
Has anybody read any of these?
