00-00-0000 The Year in works FIVE BOOKS I WOULD HAVE READ smooth IF I WEREN'T A works EDITOR The Winged Seed: A Remembrance at Li-Young Lee (Simon & Schuster): The acclaimed bard turns to memoir to give an account of his family's experiences of displacement from native land to country.
FIVE BOOKS I WOULD HAVE READ smooth IF I WEREN'T A works EDITOR The Winged Seed: A Remembrance at Li-Young Lee (Simon & Schuster): The acclaimed bard turns to memoir to give an account of his family's experiences of displacement from native land to country, resulting in a highly impressionistic work that transforms the genreReef through Romesh Gunesekera (The New Press): Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this novel parallels the movement toward civil war in Sri Lanka from the 1960 to the 1980 and stands as an artful allegory of emancipation from
