Mother Ocean Father Nation Style:Hardcover Sophie Brunet: grump in the

Sophie Brunet: grump in the kitchen/sunshine in the streets

A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us

tinged by racism and poverty

some feigning straightness

Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted

Mother Ocean Father Nation Style:Hardcover Sophie Brunet: grump in theBy Nishant Batsha A riveting, tender debut novel following a brother and sister whose paths divergeone forced to leave, one left behindin the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific On a small Pacific island, a brother and sister tune in to a breaking news radio bulletin. It is 1985, and an Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now fear and shock are rippling through the islands deeply rooted