book search for grad student

need recent books for a grad student that she can easily read in between her class reads. any genre, fiction or non

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What subjects is she interested in?

>3 nessreader: her doctorate is for speech and language if that helps I need to ask her later i need to check with here further

If she likes science fiction, she might enjoy A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine, though it might help to read the first book in the pair - A Memory Called Empire.

That second book involves aliens with a very different way of communicating, and the humans' efforts to reproduce the sounds with the wrong physiology.

The first book (and the second, too, really) are also neat to me for the way it uses Chinese literary patterns, but with English, since that's the language Martine writes in.

(Of course, this suggestion is if she's interested in reading fiction that touches on her work! i first heard of the books from linguists who thought it was a cool element to what's otherwise a suspense/adventure story.)

Mother Tongue by Suzette Elgin is a handmaids-tale- y sf dystopia with a language twist.

Or maybe for a break from studies, short stories? It's nice to get the hit of an entire story in a single reading session.
Sylvia Townsend Warner , who did a lot of s stories for the new yorker magazine in mid 20th century, has a lot of drawing room comedy austenesque stories. She might feel excessively English to you.

Frank O'connor stories are brilliantly crafted although his themes are a bit priests pigs and potatoes. He does a v funny line in precocious small boys. Alice Munro and Lydia Davis are prizewinning literary s story writers.

I was thinking short stories too Warner's lolly willows and some Anne Patchet as well

just thought of babel