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Jia Tolentino Book Recommendations
Jia Tolentino is an American writer and editor.
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Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
"Serves as a case study in how a feminist point of view can both deepen an inquiry and widen its resonances to something like universality." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
The Longing for Less
Living with Minimalism
by Kyle Chayka
"Arrives not as an addition to the minimalist canon but as a corrective to it." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
The Third Rainbow Girl
The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
"Was so essential for me." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
Children of the Land
A Memoir
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
"If anyone is looking for a good book about the border, migration, humanity in the face of dehumanization." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
The Gimmicks
A Novel
by Chris McCormick
"A little universe (rainy Armenia, love triangles, wrestlers on the road, scheming guerrillas!) & it is so, so good." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
Know My Name
A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
"Hope it’s required reading in HS & colleges." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
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The Testaments
The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
"May surprise readers who wondered, when the sequel was announced, whether [the author] was making a mistake in returning to her earlier work." - Jia Tolentino (Source)
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
"I was basically gasping as I read this saga of an ethnically Korean family in Japan." - Jia Tolentino (Source)