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"The Free World takes place in the near past — 1978 — and chronicles the adventures of the Krasnanskys, a family of Russian Jews, at a critical moment in their history. The family, a three-generational collective, has decided to take advantage of a minor loophole in Soviet emigration po
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'I am a red balloon,' reflects Esperanza Cordero, 'a balloon tied to an anchor.' The House on Mango Street is the coming-of-age story of Esperanza, a teenage Puerto Rican girl with a big family and huge dreams about escaping her cramped house and impoverished neighbourhood.
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Marian Keyes's tenth glorious doorstop of a novel focuses on the inner lives of the inhabitants of 66 Star Street, a Dublin townhouse with a blue door and a banana-shaped knocker; a gift from a previous tenant, a metalworker with a sense of humour (who everyone hated).
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In 'Blue Glass', writer Sandra Tyler reframes parenthood as a problem of holding on and letting go.
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[The] real quest in The Physics of Sorrow is to find a way to live with sadness, to allow it to be a source of empathy and salutary hesitation
Chronicling everyday life in Bulgaria means trying to communicate Bulgarian sadness,” which isto the extent that these things can be disentangledas much