{"id":143147,"date":"2020-09-24T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143147"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:59:28","slug":"aris-top-four-overdrive-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143147","title":{"rendered":"Ari’s Top Four Overdrive Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Girl Who Wrote in Silk – Kelli Estes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Inspired by true events, Kelli Estes’s brilliant and atmospheric debut serves as a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, and the power of our own stories.<\/p>\n

The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets…<\/p>\n

Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt’s island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara’s life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core \u2014 and force her to make an impossible choice.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"Pachinko – Min Jin Lee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“‘There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.’<\/i><\/p>\n

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant\u2014and that her lover is married\u2014she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.<\/p>\n

Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters\u2014strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis\u2014survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"Drum Dream Girl – Margarita Engle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Girls cannot be drummers.<\/i>\u00a0Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule\u2014until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bong\u00f3s. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that\u00a0both<\/i>\u00a0girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba’s traditional taboo against female drummers,\u00a0Drum Dream Girl<\/i> tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Undefeated – Kwame Alexander<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Originally performed for ESPN’s The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world’s greatest heroes. The text is also peppered with references to the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others, offering deeper insights into the accomplishments of the past, while bringing stark attention to the endurance and spirit of those surviving and thriving in the present. Robust back matter at the end provides valuable historical context and additional detail for those wishing to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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