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OC Book Blog: “The End of Days” by Jenny Erpenbeck
Too often the great works of other languages to do not come to the English-speaking reader. We miss out on a lot of great fiction and...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Mars Room” by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is one of those writers who grab you at once or confound you. Or both. In "The Mars Room," her fourth novel, she grabs you...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje
A modern master tells a melancholy tale of post-WWII Britain. By Randy Kraft Everything we read about war is about the war –...
OC Book Blog: “There There” by Tommy Orange
By Randy Kraft Gertrude Stein, in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, famously wrote of her childhood town of Oakland, there is no...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog — Strangers Among Us: Two Novels Explore the Search for Identity
So much has been written in recent years about the search for cultural identity. We are all descendants of “others” whether in distant...
