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Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Nathan Englander

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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...

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Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel: 2016

Liam Connell

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Recent trends in literary study have tended to place socio-political questions at the centre of...

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Possessing The Secret Of Joy

Alice Walker | 1993 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"While most people tout “The Color Purple,” and rightly so, I love, beyond measure, “Possessing the Secret of Joy,” which is a not quite sequel to “The Color Purple” about Tashi, the wife of Celie’s son Adam, and how something that happens to her body at a very young age shapes the rest of her life. This is the novel that taught me how to write fiction with political ambitions. It is searing and wondrous and painful and every time I read it, the ending wrecks me. And still, I go back for more. That’s how important this novel is."

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Roxane Gay recommended Possessing The Secret Of Joy in Books (curated)

Possessing The Secret Of Joy

Alice Walker | 1993 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"While most people tout “The Color Purple,” and rightly so, I love, beyond measure, “Possessing the Secret of Joy,” which is a not quite sequel to “The Color Purple” about Tashi, the wife of Celie's son Adam, and how something that happens to her body at a very young age shapes the rest of her life. This is the novel that taught me how to write fiction with political ambitions. It is searing and wondrous and painful and every time I read it, the ending wrecks me. And still, I go back for more. That's how important this novel is."

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