Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Four Treasures of the Sky
Four Treasures of the Sky is a novel by Jenny Tinghui Zhang that follows a young Chinese woman's harrowing journey of survival in the American West during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Recommended“so I'm reading four treasures of the Sky by an author named Jenny tingu Zang”
Where to get it
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt is a critically acclaimed and inventive novel that follows a single mother raising a precocious young boy in Tokyo as he becomes obsessed with Akira Kurosawa's film.
Recommended“well okay so I might be the last person in my radius who has not read The Last Samurai”
Where to get it
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Independent people
Independent People by Halldór Laxness is a sweeping Icelandic epic concerning the arduous life of a stubborn crofter struggling for economic independence against harsh natural elements.
Recommended“I am rereading a novel by the Icelandic writer hdor Laxus who won the Nobel Prize in I think 1955”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Florence Gordon
“he is the author of five novels including Florence Gordon and starting out in the evening”
Passing Starting Out in the Evening
“he is the author of five novels including Florence Gordon and starting out in the evening”
Passing Florence Gordon
“I'm not so sure about that part of what was going on was that after my novel Florence Gordon came out in 2014 I'd spent four or five years working on a novel that just didn't come off for various reasons”
Passing Sour Heart
“before I describe the book I want to clarify that this is not the same Jenny Zang as the woman who wrote sour heart”
Passing The Underground Railroad
“but in terms of reader investment in this young woman's coming of age it made me think so much of Kora in Coulson whiteheads the Underground Railroad from a few years ago”
Passing Some trick
“it came to her sort of sideways because the first thing I read by her was actually a short story collection called some trick”