Monthly Archive:: July 2004

Coming to America

With a light and breezy touch Firoozeh Dumas chronicles her family’s move to America in Funny in Farsi. Like many immigrants the family tries to assimilate but must deal with mysteries of American culture such as the Thanksgiving turkey and Disneyland. There are many ...Read More

On Edge

Tell me the setting for a book is somewhere in Italy and you’ve already got me hooked. Between the descriptions of renaissance paintings, savory foods, and the sunsets on piazzas, I’m already in love with the book. With this in mind, I picked up ...Read More

Poet of the People

Today, this day was a brimming cup, Today, this day was the immense wave, Today, it was all the earth. –Pablo Neruda A celebration is going on in many cities around the world for the late Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who would have turned ...Read More