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it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them
Joseph Boyden tracks his characters with a keen eye for the telling detail and a rare empathy for the empty places concealed within the heart
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere
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What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad and language*Used like new Published by McClelland & Stewart 2022 More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine year old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by