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Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life
"Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby Now
and even language
Sophie Gilbert identifies an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s
Her lifestyle attracts the wrong kind of people
Book of Records Catherine Newman does a miraculousLina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China. Memory, political revolution,