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• Home Reading Service

  Morábito, Fabio, 1955-

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  Sentenced to a year of community service reading aloud to his homebound neighbors, Eduardo's discovery of a single sensual poem unleashes a disquieting passion in the "City of Eternal Spring" (Cuernavaca).

• If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English

  a Novel

  Naga, Noor,

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  An Egyptian-American woman moves to Cairo to in search of home but finds something much more complicated in this experimental story about belonging, power and cultural voyeurism.

• The Blue Book of Nebo

  Steffan Ros, Manon,

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  When the end of the world is set in Wales and written this beautifully, it really doesn't seem so bad.

• The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die

  a Novel

  Mukhopadhyay, Sirshendu, 1935-

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  Three generations of Bengali feminist family drama, including an angry lovelorn ghost looking for payback. Pure chaos and fun.

• The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

  Batalha, Martha, 1973-

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  Euridice aspires to something more than her life as a 1940s Rio de Janeiro housewife, but it isn't until her sister and nephew arrive at her door that she begins to find her way back to herself.

• In the Beginning Was the Sea

  González, Tomás, 1950-

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  Wealthy urbanites from Medellín trade city life for a tropical island with comically diasterous results.

• Winter in Sokcho

  Dusapin, Élisa Shua, 1992-

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  An intriguing story where not a lot happens but it doesn't need to as you completely occupy the senses of a young woman from a South Korean beach town near the the 45th parallel.

• Good Citizens Need Not Fear

  Reva, Maria,

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  Humor and tragedy overlap in these stories about the tenants of an apartment building in Ukraine that due to a bureaucratic error, is not recognized to exist.

• Grown Ups

  Aubert, Marie, 1979-

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  Motherhood and sibling rivalry take center stage at a Norwegian vacation cottage. The characters are horrible but shamefully relatable and reading it gave me a similar feeling as watching Fleabag.