tris's notes
"bankole, smash or pass?"
What is Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler?
"Your beauty is nuanced and labyrinthine like a sentence by Proust."
What is Bunny by Mona Awad?
This author is also a practicing physician that specializes in brain injury.
Who is Frieda McFadden?
This character is slightly allergic to peanut butter.
Who is Cecelia Winchester?
"tiger woods is blasian?"
What is On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong?
"The only people who speak in certainties are zealots and tyrants."
What is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar?
This author wrote an essay titled "I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard" when she was a senior in college.
This character's debut novel was described as "white entertainment" by a literary critic.
Who is June Hayward?
"toxic yuri in outer space"
What is This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone?
“The twisted inversion that many children of immigrants know is that, at some point, your parents become your children, and your own personal American dream becomes making sure they age and die with dignity in a country that has never wanted them.”
What is The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo-Villavicencio?
In 2017, this author won the Ladies Horror Fiction award for "Best Novel," the only winner not originally written in English.
Who is Agustina Bazterrica?
This character, after eating a cockroach, is named by her companion after a sorceress that turns men into animals.
Who is Circe?
"again?" (after a character peed the bed for a second time)
What is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar?
“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
What is This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone?
This Asian-American author has degrees from both Cambridge and Oxford, as well as a PhD from Yale.
Who is R.F. Kuang?
This character, on her death bed, asked only for rice from Go Cong.
Who is Lan?
"ya like jazz? (she did not)"
What is Bunny by Mona Awad?
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
What is Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler?
In 1995, this author became the first science-fiction author to win the MacArthur Fellowship.
Who is Octavia E. Butler?
This character eats the poison letter even though she was told not to.
Who is Blue?