2025 Ponce Library's International Explorers Book Club Wrap-upLike this list

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• The God of Small Things

  Roy, Arundhati

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  In 1969, in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa

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  Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  a Novel

  Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-

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  When her neighbor turns up dead, and then other bodies turn up under strange circumstances, Janine, a recluse in a remote Polish village who prefers the company of animals over humans, inserts herself into the investigation, certain she knows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Brilliant Friend. Book One

  Childhood, Adolescence

  Ferrante, Elena

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  Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.

• Beasts of a Little Land

  a Novel

  Kim, Juhea,

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  After her desperate family sells her to a courtesan school, Jade befriends JungHo, an orphan boy begging on the streets of Seoul, and must decide to pursue her dreams or risk everything in the fight for independence.

• Young Mungo

  a Novel

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him to protect them both from the danger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Akata Witch

  Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi

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  Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.

• Salt Houses

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  Foreseeing blessings and troubles in the lives of her daughter and grandchildren, Salma endures hardships stemming from the Six-Day War of 1967 in Palestine before rebuilding in Kuwait, before the family is scattered by Saddam Hussein's regime.

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fruit of the Drunken Tree

  a Novel

  Rojas Contreras, Ingrid,

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  Follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia.

• The Break

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  When a Métis woman sees a possible crime she telephones the police. Told from the perspectives of various people connected to this violence in a Métis community, we hear their stories leading up to that fateful night.

• The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

  Jonasson, Jonas, 1961-

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  Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant…Read moreRead more of this annotation