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The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
by Gina Ochsner
The Russian Dreambook of Color & Flight (12/2/2009)
Oschner has a keenly filmic sensibility - visual details such as Yuri's helmet, the Red Star office and its pneumatic tubes, the museum and the snowy apartment complex would all make stark and striking backdrops. Though the pacing is at times slowed by extended ruminations (more
Baking Cakes in Kigali
by Gaile Parkin
Baking Cakes in Kigali (5/27/2009)
An episodic, breezy read in spite of its setting in a post-genocidal Rwanda - serious subjects are mentioned through euphemism (e.g. "the virus" instead of AIDS), and past traumas (like mass graves) appear in ways that seem, at times, heavy-handed.

There's a strong tendencymore
Lima Nights
by Marie Arana
Like a chicken and a goose (12/9/2008)
In Maria's words, the two main characters are like a chicken and a goose--too
different to ever truly understand each other.

Although some readers may be drawn to the title for the promise of an exotic variation on Lolita, and for the drama inherent in this unlikely pairing,more
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