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            2 articles posted on July 2020

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            July 23 2020

            Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

             A Burning is a novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of

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            Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction
            July 23 2020
            First-Year Reading
            July 13 2020

            DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people

            Activist Alice Wong presents a galvanizing collection of thirty-seven essays by disabled people just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her

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            DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people

            First-Year Reading
            July 13 2020
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