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The Roundtable

Book Picks - Oblong Books

By Joe Donahue
Published December 28, 2021 at 11:13 AM EST
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This week's Book Picks come from Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books in Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York.

List:
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Made in China by Amelia Pang
Manu: A Graphic Novel by Kelly Fernández
Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third

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