Category Archives: First Friday Recs

First Friday Rec: Babel

Title: BabelAuthor: R.F. KuangGenre: Fiction, Fantasy, HistoricalPages: 560Publication Date: August 29, 2023StoryGraph* Moods: Dark, Emotional, ChallengingHow I Stumbled Upon This Book: Book ClubOther Books by Kuang: The Poppy War Trilogy, Yellowface*StoryGraph also offers content warnings. Description: A young orphan boy is taken from his home of China and brought to England to study translation (whichContinue reading “First Friday Rec: Babel”

First Friday Rec: Solito

Title: SolitoAuthor: Javier ZamoraGenre: MemoirPages: 384Publication Date: October 11, 2022StoryGraph” Moods: Emotional, Tense, SadHow I Stumbled Upon This Book: Book ClubOther Books by Zamora: Unaccompanied*StoryGraph also offers content warnings. Description: A nine-year-old boy takes a three-thousand-mile journey from El Salvador to join his parents in the U.S. – traveling through Guatemala, Mexico, and the SonoraContinue reading “First Friday Rec: Solito”