Mike Fu’s recent translation of Sanmao’s Stories of the Sahara just came out! (If you don’t know about Sanmao’s epic life, read up—born in China, raised in Taiwan, lives in Spain, moves to Sahara.) I just started reading this amazing collection, which I’ve been anticipating for months now. Mike shares his to-read pile for us, writing, “Curated, of course, from all the other piles I currently have around the house.”
And, of course, here I am. I feel like I have primed my bookshelf for AWP with its being most empty. I’m currently out of town for the month, but I brought almost all my books to read:
– NEWIES –
Stories of the Sahara, by Sanmao (trans. Mike Fu) (in progress!)
My Baby First Birthday, Jenny Zhang
Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, Jenny Zhang
Dispatch, Cameron Awkward-Rich
Street Gloss, Brent Armendinger
Women Talking, Mariam Toews (not pictured, but read)
Thick, Tressie McMillan Cottom (not pictured, but read)
Good Bones, Maggie Smith (not pictured, but read)
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault; Heavy, Kiese Laymon; Obit, Victoria Chang; Animal, Dorothea Lasky; The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda