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Posts tagged Historical fiction
Review: “Wandering Souls” on Vietnamese Refugee Experience
In Vietnamese culture, if someone is not properly honored with a burial, “their souls are cursed to wander the earth aimlessly, as ghosts.” This is a story of…
Here’s Everything I Read in The First Half of 2023
The first half of the year has passed and tis the season to look back on your reading goals from January and assess how far you’ve come. I…
Review: ‘Dust Child’ by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Our story begins in 2016, 41 years after the end of the Vietnam war. We meet Phong, a black Amerasian, trying to obtain American visas for himself and…
Take My Hand: A History of Lawful Abuse.
We follow our protagonist, Civil Townsend, a black nurse who works in a reproductive clinic funded by the US government in Alabama. She is fresh out of school,…
5 Fascinating Multigenerational Stories Everyone Should Read
The great thing about multigenerational novels is that 9 times out of 10, they have elements of true history embedded in them. You get a great story of…