Sunday, September 26, 2010

Cultural Insights - Fiction and Non-fiction

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
How Soccer Explains the World, Frank Foer (mid-read)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (mid-read)
Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Color of Water, James McBride (a black man's tribute to his white mother - I used excerpts of this when I taught as a way of checking my students' ability to understand culture)
A River Sutra, Gita Mehta
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(culture of extreme poverty / abuse)

Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
Beans of Egypt Maine, Caroline Chute
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

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