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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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Kao Kalia Yang started out writing her family’s refugee memoir. Now she’s sharing the journeys of others

Kao Kalia Yang started out writing her family’s refugee memoir. Now she’s sharing the journeys of others

The Minnesota author's new book, "Somewhere in the Unknown World," began when she collected her uncle’s story about fleeing Laos. Then she spoke to a Liberian hospital worker, a Karen parent from school, a Jewish singer from Ukraine — and created “a collective refugee memoir.”

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Sixty years on, an NBA story teaches about racial injustice

Sixty years on, an NBA story teaches about racial injustice

The Minneapolis Laker’s Elgin Baylor’s high-flying style of basketball energized the early NBA, but it was his appearance courtside in a suit that changed the league. Now that story is being told in a children’s book.
by Myah Christenson

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'I longed to see something different, so I wrote it': Questions for Rebecca Roanhorse

'I longed to see something different, so I wrote it': Questions for Rebecca Roanhorse

Roanhorse's new novel “Black Sun” is set in a world influenced by the Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica — plus, there's crow magic, jewel-eyed sea women, and an epic road trip.
by Petra Mayer

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'Piranesi,' a perfect fall read leading up to Halloween

'Piranesi,' a perfect fall read leading up to Halloween

Chloe Deblois of Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta, Maine, recommended the novel “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke, the bestselling author of “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.”
by Emily Bright

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