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"A first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, her fantasies, her wishes, as she writes about-or tries to write about-Shakespeare's sonnets"-- Provided by publisher.
"Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in...
A thoughtful and meditative two-hander Samuel D. Hunter's extraordinary play is both intimate and expansive as it explores themes of parenthood financial insecurity and empathy. A Case for the Existence of God unfolds in a cubicle where two seated...
"One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters'...
Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible--with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piñata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's...