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Dennard Dayle: How to Dodge a Cannonball (Hardcover, Henry Holt and Co.)
Kelly Hayes: Read This When Things Fall Apart (AK Press)
Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones: Empusium (2024, Diversified Publishing)

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Percival Everett: Half an inch of water (2015)
Ali Smith: Gliff (2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
Helen Czerski: Blue Machine (Hardcover, 2023, Transworld Publishers Limited)

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Christiana Figueres: The Future We Choose (Paperback, 2020, Manilla Press)
Sandra Guzman: Daughters of Latin America (2023, HarperCollins Publishers)
Tony Hillerman: The Sinister Pig (2003, HarperCollins)

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reviewed Dancing in the streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich: Dancing in the streets (Hardcover, 2007, Metropolitan Books) No rating

"Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we …

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Gave up. No joy, no fun at all. I very much enjoyed Barbara Enrehreich's [b:Nickel and Dimed|1869|Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America|Barbara Ehrenreich|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1442378091s/1869.jpg|1840613] but this book was a different creature altogether.

Instead of reading about community celebrations, I felt like I was slogging through a textbook for a social history/psychology/anthropology class that was meant to teach the dangers of imposing a Western mindset on non-Western cultures.