10 of the best new books to read in October | JasonSteger
, but with this latest book, the American writer is immersed in the form for which he made his towering reputation, the short story. This is his first new collection for 10 years. All his customary characteristics are exhibited in these nine stories, and our impending review reckons on this evidence Saunders “is masterful, he illuminates with a fierce flame, and this book will delight his devotees”.
America, in Celeste Ng’s dystopia, has a law that mandates the preservation of tradition and culture. Bird is a Chinese-American boy whose mother, a poet, has abandoned the family after writing poetry deemed to be subversive. He lives with his librarian father, whose library has empty shelves because of the culling of so-called dangerous books. Eventually, Bird goes in search of his mother.
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