What’s Holding up the World: Jessica J. Lee’s #Dispersals and Other Writing

2024-03-16T08:43:12-04:00

Just a few pages into Jessica J. Lee’s Dispersals, I was wholly hooked (the mention of “belonging” in the subtitle got me part way there). One of those reading experiences where you feel as though you are connecting not-so-much with a book but with a way of seeing, a

What’s Holding up the World: Jessica J. Lee’s #Dispersals and Other Writing2024-03-16T08:43:12-04:00

The Tea Lords: A Novel of Java

2021-02-01T10:49:50-05:00

Reading The Tea Lords in close proximity to Lawrence Hill's novel The Book of Negroes raises the question of what stories one prefers to hear told. The Tea Lords chronicles life on an Dutch colonial tea plantation in Java in the 1870s, from the plantation owner's perspective. The Book of

The Tea Lords: A Novel of Java2021-02-01T10:49:50-05:00
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