Books Recommended by Jia Tolentino
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The Testaments
The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Source: "May surprise readers who wondered, when the sequel was announced, whether [the author] was making a mistake in returning to her earlier work." - Jia Tolentino
1 recommenderMinor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
Source: "Serves as a case study in how a feminist point of view can both deepen an inquiry and widen its resonances to something like universality." - Jia Tolentino
1 recommenderThe Gimmicks
A Novel
Chris McCormick
Source: "A little universe (rainy Armenia, love triangles, wrestlers on the road, scheming guerrillas!) & it is so, so good." - Jia Tolentino
1 recommenderChildren of the Land
A Memoir
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Source: "If anyone is looking for a good book about the border, migration, humanity in the face of dehumanization." - Jia Tolentino
1 recommenderPachinko
Min Jin Lee
Source: "I was basically gasping as I read this saga of an ethnically Korean family in Japan." - Jia Tolentino
1 recommenderThe Longing for Less
Living with Minimalism
Kyle Chayka
Source: "Arrives not as an addition to the minimalist canon but as a corrective to it." - Jia Tolentino
1 recommenderKnow My Name
A Memoir
Chanel Miller
Source: "Hope it’s required reading in HS & colleges." - Jia Tolentino
2 recommendersThe Third Rainbow Girl
The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Source: "Was so essential for me." - Jia Tolentino
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