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I'm with Michael Ondaatje in Running in the Family in the older Sri Lanka - Ceylon of his youth. For those who are interested in this topic, I recommend Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje. It's an odd little book, but very beautiful in parts. It has been described as a scrapbook, but more conventionally, it's a memoir. Except not all the memories are his. He goes between himself, ... ... Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
* South Africa - The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
* Sri Lanka - Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
* Spain - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
* Sweden - Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
* T ... Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
Running in the Family, by Michael Ondaatje
The Serpent and the Rainbow, by Wade Davis
Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn
The Village in the Jungle, by Leonard Woolf
... Unless, Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress (okay, maybe I didn't love that one, but I thought it was very good). Running in the Family was just okay.
My bookclub just read How Proust Can Change Your Life. Definitely not life changing. More like sleep inducing. ... always be associated in my mind (or weighing on it, if I still haven't read them). These are a few:
Bob Shacochis: Running in the Family, The House on Mango Street, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
George Packer: Winesburg, Ohio, Memoirs of Hecate County
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