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Fiction & Literature ·

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Hiromi Kawakami

Tsukiko unexpectedly encounters a former teacher in a bar. Shared drinks, meals and seasonal excursions gradually turn their awkward acquaintance into something less easily defined. The difference in their ages and their guarded habits give shape to a relationship built through small meetings rather than grand declarations.

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Nonfiction ·

Pasiones

Rosa Montero

Eighteen portraits of famous couples examine love through the contradictions of actual lives. Rosa Montero follows attachments marked by desire, dependence, ambition and conflict. Bringing historical figures into an intimate frame, these pieces explore how private relationships complicate the public images that survive them.

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Nonfiction ·

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller Bashir

Fauziya Kassindja flees Togo to escape a forced marriage and female genital mutilation, then faces prolonged detention while seeking asylum in the United States. Written with Layli Miller Bashir, the memoir follows both her displacement and the effort to have her account heard within the asylum process.

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