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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra
★★★★· Published 2013· 384 pages
Set during the Chechen wars, and somehow both devastating and full of grace. One of the best debuts I've read.
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Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1)
Gail Tsukiyama
Girls in a Chinese silk factory who take vows never to marry and build a fierce sisterhood instead. Absorbing and tender.
The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2)
Gail Tsukiyama
Pei carries on from Women of the Silk, building a new life in Hong Kong through the war years. Quiet and moving.
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
A Brooklyn housing project in 1969, after an old deacon shoots a drug dealer in broad daylight. Sprawling, funny, and full of life.