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“One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards,…
“‘You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.’ This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and…
“Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all…
“The Little House is set in the early years of the Shōwa era (1926-89), when Japan’s situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing…
“In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named…
“Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage -- and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child -- but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns…
“From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike…
“When Cuban fisherman first spotted the Key West lighthouse floating in Florida waters, they called her Stella Maris, Star of the Sea. It’s a beacon that draws people from…
“First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President…
“When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds…