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The Surrendered by Chang-Rae LeeI received an advance copy of this book from the publisher for review.
From the Cover:
...The haunting story exploring themes of identity and belonging, love, war, and memory, begins with an orphan girl in the Korean War, but soon takes us both backward and forward in time, from Korea to New Jersey to Manchuria and Italy. June Han is only a girl when the Korean War leaves her orphaned; Hector Brennan is a young GI who's feld the petty tragedies of his small town to serve his country. When the war ends, their lives collide at a Korean orphanage, where they vie for the attentions of Sylvie Tanner, the beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary wife whose elusive love transforms everything. It is not until thirty years later and on the other side of the world that June and Hector are forced to come together and confront the mysterious secrets of their past, the shocking acts of love and violence that bind them together.
The Alphabet Challenge by Olga Gardner GalvinI received a PDF of this book from the publisher for review.
From the Publishers Website:
Set several decades in the future, the nearly unrecognizable Manhattan is made kinder and gentler by PeopleCare, an umbrella organization of myriad victims’ rights groups whose members work their fingers to the bone to make caring, compassion, and lowest-common-denominator equality a federal law, now that they have already fought for and won their campaigns for federal prohibition on smoking and obesity, among other unhealthy things.
Enter entrepreneur Howell Langston Toland, who has learned absolutely nothing in the seven years he’d spent in jail for failure to recycle empty bottles. To cash in on the prevailing zeitgeist, he creates a new category of victimization, which encompasses the broadest audience yet. Threatened by the brazen invasion of its turf and the sudden popularity of the new cause, PeopleCare mounts a counterattack against the upstart. Toland, meanwhile, succumbs to the more natural for him entrepreneurial mode of thinking, urging his annoying followers to become self-reliant so that he may cut them loose.
Vicious politics ensue . . .
2 comments:
The Surrendered sounds good!
Wow, these books could not be more different. But they both sound equally intriguing! I didn't receive anything for Mailbox Monday, but I posted Musing Mondays if you're interested. Here's my link: http://thecrowdedleaf.wordpress.com/
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