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The Impressionist
Hari Kunzru
★★★★★· Published 2002· 482 pages
A boy of mixed race in colonial India remakes himself over and over to survive. Ambitious and dazzling.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
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.
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.