English Faculty's 2019 Summer Reading Recommendations
Welcome to the faculty's sixth annual summer reading recommendations list! Once you've read this list, you can go to the bottom of the page and click "Older Post" to see previous lists as well. TSERING WANGMO On my list is Francisco Cantu's nonfiction The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border . Cantu worked as an agent for the US Border Patrol for four years. The borderlands, he writes, "have slowly become a place where citizens are subject to distinct standards for search and detention, and where due process for noncitizens is often unrecognized as anything that might exist within the American legal system." I'm also looking forward to reading The Truth Commissioner by David Park. I (and the Writing Through Conflict) class had the chance to see the film based on his novel on the difficult subject of truth and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. ELLEN BONDS I plan to read Michael Ondaatje's latest novel Warlight , ab...