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Inheritance by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Children of the New World by Assia Djebar, آسيا جبار
Marjolijn De Jager (Translation)

A House in the Country by Ruth Adam

You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain

This novel‘s opening paragraph is as inviting as its title!

One of my favourite novels of 2021 didn‘t make the Giller longlist but it‘s shortlisted for a GG award. Yay!

https://ggbooks.ca

#shadowgiller2021

My Giller longlist prediction is on my blog, along with my judging criteria. https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2021/09/2021-giller-prize-prediction.html?m=1
What do you think?
#shadowgiller2021

Breakfast was leftover black beans, a jammy egg, and CanLit. This book has such great flow that I don‘t want to put it down.

An elegant, playful novel that captures the inner thoughts of a Cantonese Canadian & his dialogue with a Japanese Canadian as he falls in love with her, never sure if his feelings are reciprocated. The two travel from Macau to Hong Kong to Toronto to Prague. Surreal & sensual, it‘s told in 2nd person, floating in & out of vivid reveries & sharing of childhood memories, interleaved with retellings of traditional stories, plus footnotes. #Canadian

You manage to finish half of The Unbearable Lightness of Being over the course of a large coffee. I, on the other hand, over the course of drinking my coffee, manage to reply to an email regarding my tax return.

You take out two tall cans of Suntory Premium Malt.
“What else is in your bag?” I ask.
You take out a small makeup pouch, a copy of Mieko Kawakami‘s Breasts & Eggs, Purity by Jonathan Franzen, a pair of headphones & cucumber sandwiches.
I pick up your copy of Purity. “This doesn‘t seem like the kind of book you‘d normally read,” I say.
“It‘s awful,” you say. “A guy who used to be in my creative writing class gave it to me, saying that ⬇️

“You‘re like a cucumber sandwich.”
“What?”
“Do you know why I like cucumber sandwiches?”
“Tell me.”
“If there‘s just the right amount of butter, and the cucumbers are sliced to just the right degree of thinness, and the bread is just soft enough, a cucumber sandwich can be quite sophisticated without being fancy. You‘re not quite there yet, but I think you have the potential of becoming a cucumber sandwich one day.”
(Internet photo)

“Vivaldi‘s music is like a teenage boy masturbating.”
“What?”
“Yeah. Not only are the transitions obvious, Vivaldi, especially, spends so much time on the bridge. It‘s like he‘s about to cum but is holding back—just a little bit longer, just a bit—and then, bam—loud finish, orgasm, done, and the audience claps. I think masturbating is healthy. I just don‘t like music that resembles male orgasms.”