A Room Called Earth, Madeleine RyanA brilliant debut from a neurodiverse author that explores a young womans magical, sensitive, and passionate inner world. A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self aware, sometimes acerbic, and always honest. And by the end of the night, shes shown us

Hsü discusses the end of the last vestiges of foreign imperialism in China

She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom

this book is also studded with lessons - about building something from scratch

knowing she is loved

But Vianne's plans for an Easter Chocolate Festival divide the whole community in a conflict that escalates into a 'Church not Chocolate' battle

sold in a pair

essential not only for men who may be suffering but for the people who love them

Disguised as Martin

is also murdered

His tale is a heart-wrenching and unique journey and completely riveting tale that shares the author’s love of a homeland caught by ills political

They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right

even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence