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Even under quarantine, it isn’t always possible to get through all the books you want to read not with so much Zoom schooling and doom-scrolling to do. As the holidays start creeping up and leisure time starts to stretch, it’s the perfect time to give the right person just the right book, or five or 10. Herewith, a carefully curated list of the most engaging, funniest and most urgent work of the year.
Monday, December 14, 2020
The Flourishing Life of a Privileged ILLEGAL: Hating America while it hands you the American Dream; Kamala Harris Vows To Rescind Travel Ban, Give Amnesty to ILLEGALS in First 100 Days, and other related stories
The Flourishing Life of a Privileged Undocumented Immigrant:
Hating America while it hands you the American Dream Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was the first undocumented person to ever be a finalist for the National Book Award in 2020, according to the National Book Foundation. Her book
The Undocumented Americans, published this year, is a runaway bestseller. It chronicles the lives of undocumented immigrants as well as Villavicencio’s own life in America. She was brought to the United States of America from Ecuador at age four or five by her parents also undocumented immigrants.
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As true n+1 heads know, n+1 liquidated our office earlier this year to save money on rent. And liquidated is right! Now we store all our bookstore inventory in the corner of a wine cellar (pictured), generously loaned to us by an anonymous restaurateur and friend of n+1. It’s dark in here! Sometimes, the basement floods, and a little moat of stagnant wine-water glugs up around our inventory; we’ve started wearing our waterproof boots to work.
Anyway, we’re begging you from our wet basement: PLEASE HELP US GET OUR INVENTORY OUT OF HERE! BEFORE IT GETS WET! We have a lot of great stuff in stock, all of it perfect for holiday gift-giving: new books by our brilliant contributors, anthologies from our contemporary art imprint Paper Monument, beautiful tote bags and posters, and an assortment of back issues to fill the n+1-shaped holes in your loved ones’ bookshelves, hearts, and minds. Place orders before Friday, 12/11 to ensure USPS ground delivery by Christmas, a