All posts tagged "identity"
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg
When Dr Voth comes across an old manuscript from 1724, he becomes obsessed with the life of a 12-year-old orphan girl who was sold into servitude and grew to become one of history's most notorious and wanted transexual thieves.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: I Had Such Friends, by Meg Gatland-Veness
Hamish is a passenger in life, unable to do much more than watch or walk away. His world is quiet and reflective until he is pulled into the complicated lives of the people left behind after the death of Charlie Parker.
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2.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Julian is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love
When young Julian sees three beautiful women with flowing hair, he imagines them to be mermaids and wants to be just like them. A picture book about imagination and identity for ages 4+.
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644Books & LiteratureBook Review: Border Crossings, edited by Diana Glenn and Graham Tulloch
Essays on migration & people movement, focussing on increased global interest in an interdisciplinary exchange across a range of intellectual & artistic spheres.
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491Books & LiteratureBook Review: Here I Am, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human, Here I Am depicts a series of events that impact a Jewish family living in Washington, D.C.
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655Film & TVFilm Review: Moonlight
Over three periods in his life, a boy grows into a man, learning to be his own person and accepting his sexuality in a world that hasn't accept him.
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551Books & LiteratureBook Review: Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
An examination of race, identity, place and time, following the life trajectories of two mixed-race girls who both come from socially deprived areas in London.
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703Books & LiteratureBook Review: Made By Raffi, by Craig Pomranz
A little boy, who is different from his peers, is bullied & isolated at school until a yard duty teacher changes his world & helps others embrace his differences.
