Another Pulitzer Prize winner, I picked this book up for no other reason than that it won in the year I was born. And as it is my birthday month, it seemed a fun and random way to celebrate 32!
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THE SYMPATHIZER
Last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, this debut novel is somehow both brutal and funny, eye-opening yet reassuring. The story is told from the perspective of a young man serving a high-ranking General in the Vietnamese Army as the Americans are pulling out of the war in 1975.
THE WONDER
From the author of Room, you will not want to put this book down. The story follows an English nurse named Lib, who has been hired by a small town in Ireland to watch an 11-year-old girl who has reportedly been living without food for over four months. Most in the town believe this to be a miracle, but Lib is tasked with watching closely for any trickery, before the girl can be declared officially miraculous.