Shani Boianjiu
SHANI BOIANJIU was born in Jerusalem in 1987. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Vice magazine and Zoetrope: All Story. Shani is the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35, and The People of Forever are...
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SHANI BOIANJIU was born in Jerusalem in 1987. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Vice magazine and Zoetrope: All Story. Shani is the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35, and The People of Forever are Not Afraid is her first novel. She lives in Israel.
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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid follows three girls in their required army enlistment. They enter as young children and emerge as women, forever changing the way they think and act.The three girls do have very different personalities, which makes the story interesting. However, it switches betw...
I went into this book with high expectations, hoping to get caught up in a story of a young girl experiencing the mandatory two years of military service required of both men and women in Israel. Prior to reading the synopsis I didn't even know that went on. I do not know much about life in modern-d...
Ok the only reason I requested this was to read the first few chapters of the Diviners by Libba Bray....but there were alot of other sneak peaks in here that I found very interesting and now I have a ton more book on hold at the library...great... :)
Books that I want to read/look interesting: The Dog StarsThrone of Glass - Got the ARC! The Last Dragonslayer - Got the ARC! OriginJohn Saturnall's Feast - Got the ARC! The DivinersThe Other NormalsIn Sunlight and in Shadow - Got the ARC! Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook ...
BEA Buzz Book is a collection of excerpts on galleys that was featured in the last BookExpo America. It contained atleast 30 excerpts ranged from various kinds of Debuts, Non-Fiction, YA, Children, Adult, Memoirs, Mystery and General Fiction. Along with it was publisher's information after every end...
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