Lissie Jaquette Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Executive Director @LitTranslate | Arabic translator (Basma Abdel Aziz, Adania Shibli, Dima Wannous, Rania Mamoun)
The Emissary
Yoko TawadaLissie JaquetteSpecial congrats also to Margaret Mitsutani for her #translation of Yoko Tawada's THE EMISSARY (@NewDirections) which I loved and wrote about here https://t.co/QO0ThOozxW #NBAwards
Paperback, 2018
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Daybed
Zach SavichLissie Jaquette@kima_jones I'm making my way through so many: HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang (tr. @londonkoreanist), DAYBED by Zach Savich, THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER by @_franciscocantu, & هنا بدن (in Arabic) by Basma Abdel Aziz. (something for every genre, apparently)
Paperback, 2018
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Human Acts
Han KangLissie Jaquette@kima_jones I'm making my way through so many: HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang (tr. @londonkoreanist), DAYBED by Zach Savich, THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER by @_franciscocantu, & هنا بدن (in Arabic) by Basma Abdel Aziz. (something for every genre, apparently)
Paperback, 2017
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Endless Summer
Madame NielsenLissie Jaquette@Read_Women or Madame Nielsen's The Endless Summer (@open_letter)!
Paperback, 2018
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
J. Drew LanhamLissie Jaquette@QuinceMountain @coereba I'd also highly rec The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by @1blackbirder. it's a favorite of my nature-memoir reading spree (which naturally started with @BlairBraverman)
Paperback, 2017
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Blair BravermanLissie JaquetteThis is amazing storytelling. I was completely enthralled reading this on Saturday, and am now halfway through WELCOME TO THE GODDAMN ICE CUBE, just as enthralled. https://twitter.com/BlairBraverman/status/959900602288558080
Paperback, 2017
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book