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Secret Passages in a Hillside Town by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen @PushkinPress @paziij #WeNeedDiverseReads #SecondChances

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen returns to the blog today with a lovely story set in the Finnish countryside. Please read on for my review of

Secret Passages in a Hillside Town

I loved Rabbit Back Literature Societyfrom this author, and found some of the otherworldliness felt very appropriate to what I’ve come to know about Finland and the folklore, but here, the few unanswered questions left in the…

Sorrow of the Earth by Eric Vuillard #NewRelease #Diverse #HistoricFiction @PushkinPress #NativeAmerican

Originally in French and titled Tristesse de la terre, the first of Eric Vuillard’s books to be translated by Ann Jefferson is on the blog today. A reimagined (and thoroughly researched) historical fiction focused on the Native Americans and their plight as expansion, racism and genocide ran rampant during the heyday of the Wild West Show with Buffalo Bill Cody. Please read on for my review and…