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Erin Kannan
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin - Call it a classic
Today is a historic day like, and completely unlike every 4th January 20th going back almost 300 years. Americans had the bitter sweet...
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Erin Kannan
Oct 14, 20203 min read
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman: Syrian stories that transcend the numbers
Individual first-hand stories, a journalistic approach to research, approachable literary style. I am passionate about this genre to the...
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Erin Kannan
Aug 28, 20204 min read
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh: a generational epic through Burma and India
Through stories like this history is made personal.
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Erin Kannan
Aug 12, 20204 min read
The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen: an inaugural review guaranteed to max out your TBR list
As a collection it's an exclamation of humanity.
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