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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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Claudia Rankine
DS Nemchoff
, October 22, 2014
Citizen is a formally daring work of essay, poetry and visual art that is both powerful and deeply unsettling. Citizen pulls you in and pushes you away, you find solidarity here, and you find shame. It makes you righteously angry and it implicates you. It is dangerously alive. Citizen is a journey. Take it many times. It will reshape you and replace you. It will take you to different places or will take a now different you to the same places differently. Short-listed for(and hopefully soon to win) the National Book Award, Claudia Rankine's Citizen is essential reading and a perfect pairing with her previous collection Don't Let Me Be Lonely.
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Sherwood Nation
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Parzybok, Benjamin
DS Nemchoff
, September 06, 2014
What makes this story, of a near-future climate dystopia in Portland, Oregon, unique, and distinguishes Sherwood Nation from other dystopian novels, is that rather than focusing on the apocalyptic aspects of this future Portland, which are numerous, it focuses more on the DIY inventiveness of the citizenry in the face of crisis, on the opportunities that an unexpected crisis provide for all of us to rethink how we want to organize ourselves, how we want to govern and be governed. Much like the west coast today (this book is quite prescient) the west coast of Sherwood Nation is definitely suffering from the past choices we've made as a society, but this book strikes a surprisingly hopeful note, showing how small individual acts, small but brave acts outside one's normal routine, can truly snowball into larger transformations.
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