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The New Yorker writer's posthumously published quasi-memoir is succinct and thought-provoking — and manages to capture so much of what made her so unfailingly interesting.
Tina Chiou/Penguin Random House The Free Library has chosen 'Interior Chinatown' by Charles Yu as its 2023 pick for One Book, One Philadelphia. The 2020 novel won the National Book Award for fiction.
“There There,” a novel by Native American author Tommy Orange set in contemporary Oakland, California is The Free Library of Philadelphia’s next pick for the One Book One Philadelphia program.
The 2019 selection for "One Book, One Philadelphia," the city-wide initiative to foster more readership and community for all ages is Jesmyn Ward's 2017 novel, "Sing, Unburied, Sing." The new ...