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“My middle name really is perseverance. I’ve always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person… I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn’t worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that’s what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them… I felt I had talent.”

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BOOK OF THE DAY:

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

“[A] dazzling literary high-wire act … brilliant … The payoff is extraordinary: a fearless, acrobatic, ultimately haunting effort.“ – Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut semi-autobiographical novel Everything Is Illuminated was published when he was 25 years old. As a freshman in Princeton University, he attended Joyce Carol Oates’ Intro to Writing class, in where she told him that his writing possessed the best quality a writer could showcase: energy. Nevertheless, Foer displays such energy, charisma and wit in Everything Is Illuminated. It follows the story of Jonathan, who hopes to meet with the woman who might have saved his grandfather from the Nazis fifty years ago in the Ukraine along with the help of his translator, Alex.

Everything Is Illuminated doesn’t follow a traditional structure. It often switches from the narratives of Jonathan’s grandfather’s past life to the present day, interjected with Jonathan’s and Alex’s point of views. Foer successfully introduces how cultural misunderstandings can be deemed cruel, which turns out to be a hilarious story in many parts. Overall Foer’s character, Alex makes language fun; he is subliminal, philosophical but funny. Although the journey is heartbreaking, it is also beautiful.

Read excerpts from the book here!

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