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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
★★★★★· Published 2008· 372 pages
The imagined history of a real Hebrew manuscript, traced back across centuries. Loved the puzzle of it.
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Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks
17th-century Martha's Vineyard and the first Native American to graduate Harvard, seen through a minister's daughter. Vivid.
Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks on the sudden death of her husband and the grief she finally let herself feel. Quiet and devastating.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The book opens in a Korean fishing village in the early 1900s. A teenage girl is pregnant and must flee to Japan. Min Jin Lee follows her family across four generations — each paying for what came before. It’s long, but it pulls.