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"The author writes about her family growing up in East New Orleans, a large area east of the French Quarter built on marshland. What was once a thriving neighborhood slowly devolved into an industrial zone vulnerable to flooding, a direct conseque..."
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"The beauty of this book is the seamless interweaving of the living and the dead. It is a story that takes place in the Old West – the draw of the new frontier, hard lives, strong women, and the eternal bond between a camel and his cameleer. Scar..."
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"The stories within Exhalation were thought provoking and had a theme in common - collective humanity and perhaps what it means to be human. I had to take a break between stories to contemplate the meaning of what I had just read and how it might ..."
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Random House, Inc.NATIONAL BESTSELLER• ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of...
"I appreciated the perspective of the book, written by a female scientist that was used to being told “no” because she was a girl and yet she always dreamed big to have her own research lab some day. When she reached that dream, she still had to o..."
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