Worldly
Wisdom
Wisdom
This book by a repeat Rager author presents systemic solutions to a significant social issue in the United States by arguing for tax reform and increased investment in public services.
What is Poverty, By America?
This character is an enteroctopus dofleini.
Who is Marcellus the octopus?
From Remarkably Bright Creatures
A slinky style made to be worn at the bar or club (including but not limited to a spaghetti-strap camisole with a lace neckline, a cowl-neck shiny polyester number, a teeny-tiny cropped vest, a sequin tube top, an embellished corset, or a bubble hem) this previously mocked Millennial trend is currently experiencing a resurgence.
What is a going-out-top?
If the menu at this book's book club had been modeled after the main character's diet- we would have eaten a lot of tuna and boiled shrimp.
What is Shark Heart?
Nungambakkam, where Claude Arnold resides, is a vision of England rendered on the canvas of southern India.
What is The Covenant of Water?
Economic dissatisfaction lead to this conflict in 1979 overthrowing the Pahlavi dynasty.
What is the Iranian Revolution?
From The Lion Women of Tehran
These panthera leo, or Shir-Zan as they are called in the book, are strong, brave, and determined to fight for justice.
What are lion women? or Lionesses?
We would love this septuagenarian title character to cater one of our book club gatherings.
Who is Mrs. Quinn?
This author, who is also a dedicated home cook and foodie, has shared their recipes for roast chicken, cornbread dressing, tuna melts, and bacon-fried apples.
Who is Kamala Harris?
After seconds that were years, Silas turned in my direction, and there like a heartbeat, there Nova was in his arms.
What is My Murder?
One of the more memorable scenes in this book takes place in a mall in Singapore.
What is The Future?
Damodaran, a character that symbolizes the family's history and lineage in one of our favorite books of the year, is an animal also known as elephas maximus indicus.
What is an elephant?
Two prominent characters, including the "Big" family matriarch, are named after this repeat Rager author's mother.
Who is Abraham Verghese?
From the Covenant of Water
Mrs. Quinn makes this irressistable recipe, a traditional Yorkshire fruit cake that is so tasty that you cut a slice and come back for another.
What is cut and come again cake?
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar.
What is Catch 22?
Despite its title, this book's main setting was inspired by the author's luxurious stay in Geneva, Switzerland.
What is A Gentleman in Moscow?
Lewis from this book is a carcharodon carcharias.
What is Shark Heart: A Love Story?
This character, whose name means "good" in Hebrew, is besties with a grumpy aquatic creature.
Who is Tova?
From Remarkably Bright Creatures
In The Lion Women of Tehran, Ellie and Homa play hooky from school and eat this tasty treat while at the bazaar.
What are ice cream sandwiches?
History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair.
What is A Gentleman in Moscow?
The primary locale of the action in this book is an island whose name translates to "flat".
What is Catch 22?
(Pianosa Island)
The cover of this book features a oryctolagus cuniculus symbolizing fear and a vulpes vulpes symbolizing survival, ideologies explored thematically in the story.
What is The Future?
This woman should be our President right now.
Who is Kamala Harris?
In A Gentleman in Moscow, the Triumvirate conspire to to make bouillabaisse, a scheme that is months in the making due to the difficulty in acquiring this ingredient.
What is saffron?
I would also accept one of the other tricky items to acquire: mussels, haddock, oranges, absinthe.
The history of the clown’s underpants is a secret history and I will never tell it.
What is "Everything Sad is Untrue"?