populariser of the circulating library – and the most influential figure in publishing before Jeff Bezos

and light lunches

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aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds populariser of the circulating libraryAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire and attends to them all with lines that feel newly minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: the chief of police