Katie Freeman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Highly recommend pairing WINTERING with THE ELECTRICITY OF EVERY LIVING THING @_katherine_may_ @melvillehouse (and signing up for Katherine's excellent newsletter at her website!) https://t.co/3W3xkQyAC6
Hardcover, 2020
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mrs. S
K. Patrick
"In this way, questions about sex and love and gender are layered on top of one another. Our protagonist starts out fearful of these queries but eventually revels in the unknowing..." @Kristen_Arnett on @K__Patrick's MRS S @EuropaEditions - a novel I loved https://t.co/bRYKjGeGmv
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Charles Yu
YES @charles_yu who is awesome in all ways! And everyone should read Interior Chinatown @PantheonBooks https://t.co/cgqfIaKD28
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin
Congratulations Elisa Shua Dusapin WINTER IN SOKCHO translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins & published by the exceptional @open_letter! #NBAwards https://t.co/Rkz9M7Q1ol
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Country of Origin
Dalia Azim
Fervently refreshing @TheBookerPrizes hoping to see @mieko_kawakami HEAVEN trans. by Sam Bett & David Boyd shortlisted, while working on ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT (May 3) & Dalia Azim's gorgeous debut COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (April 12), feeling v. grateful for superb fiction & indies
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
Sejal Shah
"The essays in this slim volume are engaging and thought-provoking. Each ends with a date that tells the reader when it was first written, placing it in context in Shah's life."@marthaannetoll @nprbooks on @fictionalsejal THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE @UGAPress https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/868326004/this-is-one-way-to-dance-explores-a-life-straddling-congruent-realities
Paperback, 2020
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen
Top 5 Nonfiction @nytimesbooks: RED COMET by Heather Clark (@Plathbiography) HOW THE WORD IS PASSED @ClintSmithIII ON JUNETEETH @agordonreed INVISIBLE CHILD @andreafelliott THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY by Tove Ditlevsen, trans. by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue
Top 5 Fiction @nytimesbooks: HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE by Imbolo Mbue INTIMACIES @katiekitamura THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS @BlkLibraryGirl WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD by Benjamín Labatut, trans. by Adrian Nathan West NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS @TriciaLockwood
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison
Pen America
Starting now! The launch of THE SENTENCES THAT CREATE US: Crafting a Writer’s Life In Prison @haymarketbooks @PENamerica with editor @caits_meissner in conversation w/ @dwaynebetts & @NK_Adjei https://t.co/QnOICYBtIf
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Andrea Elliott
Top 5 Nonfiction @nytimesbooks: RED COMET by Heather Clark (@Plathbiography) HOW THE WORD IS PASSED @ClintSmithIII ON JUNETEETH @agordonreed INVISIBLE CHILD @andreafelliott THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY by Tove Ditlevsen, trans. by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book