loppear started reading Salt houses by Hala Alyan

Salt houses by Hala Alyan
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement …
Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement …
@seanderson13 the reviews are correct, it's a major blind spot. As with the central thesis that default male structures and data ignore and elide women's needs, the book speaks of women almost entirely as a monolithic whole. The author's recurring demands for disaggregated data analysis and diverse voices in decision-making leave an unspoken echo in my head "yes, along so much more than this single dimension".
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on …
An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, …
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Locally-connected story of escape from slavery in Georgia and public life on the abolition circuit in Massachusetts and England. While there are many moments of intrigue and risk, the somewhat dry telling is well-riddled by neatly connected reminders of slavery's implications in wealth everywhere they travel, and the novelty of the 'white slave' in drawing abolitionist crowds repeatedly highlights the deep veins of racism and misogyny even in those risking more or less to end slavery.
Nicely elucidated clear translation, compared to others there's nothing florid and mostly less poetic (reading alongside LeGuin's equally spare version in particular here), interspersed with short essays on commentary, lived experience, and the translator's challenges for a text so embedded in culture and so dismissive of language as a way to approach Dao.
Spiritually infused poetry that slips between weeds in the garden and fleeting seasons and omniscient conversation beyond these bounds to ask of life in the crevices.
Subtle feeling mystery unraveling in a slight and mythical magic of historical China setting that meditates on friendship, vengeance, and moral obligation. Quite wonderful.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is …
@fionnain that's how they get you in, welcome to Melville club, there's a white whale in your future.
@seanderson13 let me know where you do, zing!
“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate …