the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Matthew Salesses is an author. Korean adoptee author of The Sense of Wonder, Craft in the Real World, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, The Hundred-Year Flood, etc. All queries: @agent_ayesha
The Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carsonthe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesThe Sense of Wonder recommended by @RonCharles on @CBSSunday! Filled with 🙏🏽💛🏀. Also an excerpt here about cakes that look like other things https://t.co/Bu87DeQIlO
Hardcover, 1998
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingstonthe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesKingston's blend of memoir and mythology is probably the book I have re-read the most. Each time I find it has grown with me. It has had something to say to me in each stage of my life.
Paperback, 1989
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Counterfeit
Kirstin Chenthe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesChen's novel is about a straitlaced heroine pulled into a counterfeit-handbag scheme. But it's also a book about the model-minority myth and how Asian Americans can turn cultural stereotypes against the system that tries to limit their opportunities.
Paperback, 2023
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I Hotel
Karen Tei Yamashitathe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesThe Great Asian American Novel, if I had to pick only one. How does this book, set in San Francisco's Chinatown, manage to fit into its pages so much of Asian American history, and of love and life and activism and community and, and, and ...?
Paperback, 2019
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The Tenth Muse
Catherine Chungthe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesMy favorite novel by one of my favorite writers. A decorated mathematician raised in the Midwest in the 1950s looks back at her relationships and long career, and the choices she made to follow one versus the other. Chung knows how to make you care.
Hardcover, 2019
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The Sense of Wonder
Matthew Salessesthe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesThe Sense of Wonder is one of @NewYorker’s best books of the week! Order it here: https://t.co/bYpUcGnapt 🏀💛 https://t.co/4umhBTFwqN
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A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozekithe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesOzeki's novel is a tale for any time ... Metafiction and parallel universes and climate change and Zen Buddhism — this book has so much to appeal.
Paperback, 2013
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Attention Seeking
Adam Phillipsthe writer formerly known as Matthew SalessesSome years ago I asked on Twitter for a good account of shame. This one is v good. (Attention Seeking, by Adam Phillips) https://t.co/NqUK70YV9o
Paperback, 2022
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