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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
★★★★· Published 2000· 639 pages
Two cousins invent a comic-book superhero in the Golden Age while the war closes in on the family left behind in Europe. Chabon's sentences are a joy.
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Hari Kunzru
A boy of mixed race in colonial India remakes himself over and over to survive. Ambitious and dazzling.
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Larry McMurtry
Two aging Texas Rangers drive cattle to Montana, and somehow it's 900 pages I never wanted to end. Funny, brutal, and completely alive.
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.