This sounds fascinating and awesome. I'm adding it to my look-for-at-library list, thank you!
One of my favorite books (of novels told through short stories, and of just books ever) is When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, a novella of linked stories about a nameless Japanese-American family interned in the war. It is gorgeous and all the more merciless for its conciseness; every time I read the final story "Confession," it's poetry and acid in my lungs all at once.
I wonder about the Guantanamo Bay stories we'll hear, at least while I'm still alive.
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Sun, Jan. 13th, 2008 02:49 am (UTC)One of my favorite books (of novels told through short stories, and of just books ever) is When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, a novella of linked stories about a nameless Japanese-American family interned in the war. It is gorgeous and all the more merciless for its conciseness; every time I read the final story "Confession," it's poetry and acid in my lungs all at once.
I wonder about the Guantanamo Bay stories we'll hear, at least while I'm still alive.