No Great Mischief – Alistair MacLeod (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan (Penguin Books, 2006)
…however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.
Ru – Kim Thúy (Vintage Canada, 2015)
The Emperor’s Children – Claire Messud (Vintage Books, 2007)
Emberton – Peter Norman (Douglas & McIntyre, 2014)
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (Grosset & Dunlap, 1965)
Dreamtigers – Jorge Luis Borges (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970) (translated from the Spanish by Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland)
White Teeth – Zadie Smith (Penguin Books, 2001)
Samad watches it all and finds himself, to his surprise, unwilling to silence her. Partly because he is tired. Partly because he is old. But mostly because he would do the same, though in a different name. He knows what it is to seek. He knows the dryness. He has felt the thirst you get in a strange land – horrible, persistent – the thirst that lasts your whole life.
The Quick – Lauren Owen (McClelland & Stewart, 2014)
Currently Reading:
Don Quixote – Cervantes
Daydreams of Angels – Heather O’Neill
Transatlantic – Colum McCann
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