Raz sent me back with a play, “We Can’t Pay? We Won’t Pay?” to drop off at the library.
At one point it had me laughing out loud; while I laugh often enough (maybe not lately, but usually), its rare for me to be so inspired by something I’m reading. Check him out!
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Graduations are the fingerspelling curse of the world (unless one is into the Rochester Method).
Since the lone deaf audience member that my team and I were there for was only interested in his friend’s actual reception of her diploma, we spent the time talking about cultural differences, whiteness, and science fiction. 
He recommended Wilbur Smith; I recommended Octavia Butler, particularly the Xenogenesis series. He recommended George R.R. Martin; I recommended Alastair Reynolds.
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Hilariously cheeky white Southern girl comes-of-age in this poignant and inspiring story set in 1964 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
A novel by Sue Monk Kidd
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“The Russian Debutante’s Handbook”
by Gary Shteyngart
Summary: Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin – “part P.T. Barnum, part Vi.I Lenin” – lives a futile life in NY City. Gets involved with yuppy women, is terrorized by his mother and has a fat girlfriend. Until he messes with the Mafia and is forced to flee to the imaginary Eastern European country of Stolovaya, where he becomes a Russian mobster in his own right.
Why read?: Hilarious, similar to “A Conspiracy of Dunces” in style. Dry humor, self-mockery, a shitload of cultural references, tongue-in-cheek throughout.
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