Welcome Shyamoli, a librarian who inspires, bringing her passion for reading and literacy to a wide range of people. She is among the first if not the first to bring authors and other programs to our local county branch library. I look forward to her recommendations and ongoing support.
We do tend to read a lot of Jewish and Indian novels and stories, not necessarily planned, but if often works out that way, and the two sometimes intersect surprisingly. One example that comes to mind is the wonderful novel "Baumgartner's Bombay," by Anita Desai about a sad Jewish man, a refugee, a misfit in his native Germany and a misfit in many ways in Bombay of the 1930s and 40s. Another is a memoir by novelist Vikram Seth (author of "A Suitable Boy" which Shyamoli is reading and which is sitting here on a bookshelf), "Two Lives" about his uncle in WW II Germany.
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