Rio de Janeiro: A Food Biography
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In the last four centuries of its history, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro created a lifestyle...
The Red Rooster Cookbook
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Publication coincides with the opening of Samuelsson's first international outpost of Red Rooster in...
Saltwater
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A distinctive new voice for fans of 'Fleabag' or Sally Rooney' Independent 'Raw, intimate and...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated The Forever Purge (2021) in Movies
Jul 6, 2022
The Forever Purge is hardly breaking new ground, but still manages to feel somewhat fresh in a horror series that is 5 films deep. It's also a decent recovery after the last film seriously stumbled. All in all, a popcorn movie that will surely be a bucket of bloody fun if you leave your brain at the door.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions in Books
Jan 3, 2018
Based on her experiences working as an interpreter for dozens of Central American child migrants, she speaks to those who risked their lives crossing Mexico to escape their fraught existence back home. To stay in the US, each must be vetted by the Citizenship and Immigration Services, a vast, impersonal bureaucracy. It's her job to help these kids, but in order to do so, they must answer 40 questions that will determine their fate.
The truth about the crossing may be much more brutal in reality, with 80% of women and girls who cross from Mexico to the US being raped, hence some of the children appear evasive when answering questions. But this book is fueled, in no small part, by Luiselli's bottles up shame and rage. She's aghast at the gap between American ideals and the way they actually treat undocumented children, yet her writing is measured and fair-minded.
Luiselli takes us inside the grand dream of migration, offering the valuable reminder that exceedingly few immigrants abandon their past and brave death to come to America for dark or nasty reasons. Fantastic read.
Different Class: Football, Fashion and Funk - the Story of Laurie Cunningham
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In 1977, Laurie Cunningham became the first black footballer to play professionally for England and,...
My Two Italies
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The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi...
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
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To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The...
Happiness: A Novel
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A breathtaking novel from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author...
The Other One Percent: Indians in America
Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur and Nirvikar Singh
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One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the...