Here’s a shelfie of a giant crackling bookshelf we got in Beijing and have moved around the world. I love this shelf and its contents (which seem eclectic at first look, maybe because they represent so many different moments of reading and thinking and romance and our lovely kids!). This shelf holds all the plays my husband has written, my own novels and memoir; graphic novels and baby books our girls wrote and drew up over the years and some of our favorite kids’ books by others – Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel; big delicious anthologies of poetry, short fiction, feminist writing, and Chinese literature; all of Gwendolyn Brooks’; Anne Carson’s; James Baldwin’s; Alice Munro’s; Allison Bechdel’s; and Anna Akhmatova’s books. You can see Colson Whitehead’s fantastic epic The Underground Railroad in this picture, and also Gene Luen Yang (and Lark Pien’s) Boxers and Saints, which are some of our favorites, too.
About the Author: Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera that inspired her memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She is the author of Repeat After Me and Big Girl Small, which received the American Library Association’s Alex Award for an adult book with special appeal to teen readers; Rachel’s conversations with young readers inspired her to write her first YA novel, Blind. Rachel is on the faculty of the University of Chicago, where she teaches creative writing. She lives in Chicago with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two daughters. Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly.
- One (1) winner will receive a hardcover copy of Someday We Will Fly, a beautiful Classic Style Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Metal Stainless Bookmark, and a wooden bookmark hand-selected in Shanghai
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I wished I’d learned more about the Japanese internment camps here in the US.
I live in Canada but they did not teach us a lot of Canadian History and I wish they did.
The French Revolution
I have been enjoying World War ll books and wish I learned more about it in High School. Thank you