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Despite the promising title, this book landed solidly in the “ok” column for me. I was really expecting descriptions/experiences of many different syndromes, but despite mentioning a number of cultural syndromes, both Eastern and Western, the book focuses primarily on one. The focus is koro, or suo yang, which is a syndrome where the patient thinks their genitals are disappearing, or even being stolen. A compelling topic,
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I was familiar with Dani Shapiro and her story before I read this book, thanks to her podcast Family Secrets. This book is the story of her Family Secret — that her father isn’t her biological father. On its face, this really isn’t an unusual situation. Tons of people find out at some point that the people they thought were their biological parents aren’t. But
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This. Is. Intense. Catch and Kill is Ronan Farrow’s account of his reporting of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. The story started out as an exploration of Hollywood’s “casting couch”, but it wasn’t long before Farrow realized that the story went much further than Rose McGowan, one of the first women to come forward. Except that the deeper he went and the closer he got
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I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time, and I’m glad I finally got around to it! Persepolis is the story of a piece of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood, beginning during the Islamic Revolution in Iran when she was 6 and ending at age 14, when her parents send her away. I really only had the very barest of knowledge about the Islamic Revolution,
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