The Hip and Well-Read Book Club picks-December 2009
Discover the Hip and Well-Read Book Club's December 2009 picks, featuring Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Blankets by Craig Thompson, and more must-read fiction and graphic novels.
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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Blankets
by Craig Thompson
This is a highly charged, personal story, crammed with pain, discovery, family and first love.
