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书单|WP 20 Books to Read This Summer
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作者: Julian Aguon
出版社: University of Guam Press
出版年: 2021-3-29
出版社: University of Guam Press
出版年: 2021-3-29
评语:Newsrooms of the late 1960s were not especially welcoming to women: “Great legs, face only fair,” read one note about a job candidate at the New York Times. But public radio’s shaky beginnings created openings for the likes of Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts. Napoli chronicles not just the camaraderie among the “founding mothers” but also their commitment to help the younger women who aspired to follow them.
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作者: Alison Bechdel
出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
出版年: 2021
出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
出版年: 2021
评语: The MacArthur “Genius” cartoonist who burst on the scene with the 2006 graphic memoir “Fun Home” — inspiring a Tony-winning musical — set out to write a light book about her lifelong commitment to exercise, including stints as a cyclist, climber, skier and yogi. As usual, her story and art are about so much more — the realities of aging, the quest for transcendence and the drumbeat of mortality.
评语:The author of 2014’s “You Should Have Known,” which inspired HBO’s “The Undoing,” delivers a witty nightmare of a thriller about the dangerous consequences of sticky fingers in the literary world. When a once-celebrated author winds up teaching in a middling MFA program, he’s sure he’s squandered his chance at lasting success — until one of his promising pupils dies, inspiring the novelist to claim the student’s book idea as his own.
评语:There was a lot riding on Glenn’s launch into space on Feb. 20, 1962, as part of the Friendship 7 mission. Making history was part of it, and he became the first American to orbit Earth. But Shesol’s account from interviews and archival material also explores the emotional importance of that flight, showing Americans that their country could take on the Soviets anywhere.
评语:o the world, Mick Riva is perfection — a handsome heartthrob with a voice like an angel. To his four children, he’s a deadbeat dad whose absence destroyed their mother. Years after their abandonment, the kids have traded poverty for wealth and are preparing for a massive party in a house on a cliff above the coastline. But riches and ocean views can’t quite mask the devastating effects of the past.
评语:When Elena and Mauro leave Colombia for Texas looking for financial security, they have no idea that the land of plenty they’re seeking is just as violent as the country they left — and that their future is just as precarious. Engel is a gifted storyteller whose writing shines even in the darkest corners, which in this case means exploring the pain of a family torn apart after a father’s deportation.
评语:Shipstead combines a soaring work of historical fiction about a “lady pilot” in the mid-20th century with the tale of a famous modern-day actress trying to save her career after some highly publicized debauchery. This is a long one — about 600 pages — but the novel makes full use of its length to explore parallel stories about powerful women who rise from tragedies to forge their own way.
评语:The “Flight Attendant” author’s historical thriller is subtly packed with details about the realities of 1662 Boston, where Mary, a young Puritan woman, winds up marrying an abusive widower twice her age. When the violence escalates, she decides divorce is the only way to save her life. But in a society always alert to the work of the devil, she winds up as endangered as ever.
评语:Following the success of her comic debut, 2016’s “The Nest,” Sweeney delivers a sweeter, gentler novel about the ways different people experience the same events, decisions and mistakes. Flora gave up her Broadway dreams to support her family, including her husband, the head of a high-quality, low-profit theater company. But when she discovers the wedding ring he claimed to have lost years earlier, Flora starts to question everything about her existence.
评语:If there’s a celebrity in the world of forest ecology, it’s Simard, whose TED Talks about trees have been viewed by millions. Her first book blends memoir — the story of her upbringing in Canada as a descendant of loggers — with fascinating research about how forests are much like human communities, alive with messages, warnings and protective tips shared among neighbors.
评语:The investigative journalist and author of “Say Nothing” excavates the history of the Sackler family, known mainly, until a few years ago, for their lavish donations to universities and museums. But the family’s fortune, made from pharmaceuticals such as OxyContin, has invited recent scrutiny, including that of the dogged Keefe, who tells the family’s story as the saga of a dynasty driven by arrogance, avarice and indifference to mass suffering.
评语:Heiny is a master at switching registers, delivering poignant heartbreak one moment and big laughs the next. Her novel teems with eccentric characters who swirl around 26-year-old Jane after she moves to Boyne City, Mich., for a job as a second-grade teacher. She immediately falls for Duncan, a woodworker so charming he’s bedded half the town. Is he marriage material? Maybe, maybe not. But the community’s a keeper.
评语:This moving memoir, by a writer who moonlights as the musical artist Japanese Breakfast, explores how H Mart, the supermarket chain specializing in Asian food, came to serve as a bridge to her Korean heritage after her mother’s death. As it turns out, making kimchi was a natural step toward healing.
评语: The fourth book — and fourth bestseller — by the author otherwise known as the Bloggess goes to some dark places, including her years-long battle with depression, anxiety disorder and autoimmune diseases. But her levity is her buoy and her brand. Life may be brutal, but Lawson proves that even a maddening battle with an insurance company can be fertile ground for comedy.
评语:Askaripour’s irresistible novel concerns Darren, a young Black man who trades a job at Starbucks for staggering success at an absurd tech start-up. This razor-sharp corporate satire also delves into the thorny issue of race in the modern workplace. As the only Black man in the office, Darren finds himself among colleagues determined to prove how post-racial they are. You can imagine how well that goes.
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