BCLA Readers Advisory Interest Group has three titles to recommend to patrons who\u00a0ask the dreaded question, \u201cWhat do you have that\u2019s good?\u201d<\/p>\n
The poignancy of Paul Kalanithi\u2019s memoir\u00a0When Breath Becomes Air<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is deeply affecting.\u202f At age 36, nearly at the end of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.\u00a0When Breath Becomes Air<\/i>\u00a0is his contemplation of his profession; his path not taken; his experience as a patient; and his thoughts on marriage, new fatherhood, and death.<\/p>\n
Former University of Toronto librarian and Japanese literature translator Lynne\u00a0Kutsukake\u00a0is the debut author of\u00a0The Translation of Love<\/i><\/b>. Following their internment in a Canadian camp, 13-year-old\u00a0Aya\u00a0and her\u00a0father\u00a0are faced with the choice to move west of the Rockies or to Japan. Their decision to repatriate plunges them into the devastation of post-World War II occupied\u00a0Tokyo. This is the story of\u00a0mystery and of outsiders, identities in flux, redemption and healing. It is historical fiction at its best.<\/p>\n
The Broadway musical\u00a0Hamilton<\/i>\u00a0about America\u2019s founding father Alexander Hamilton has become a powerful cultural phenomenon. It sells out every venue it graces, has garnered a multiplicity of awards from a Grammy to the Pulitzer Prize for drama, and now has begat a bestselling book.\u00a0Hamilton: The Revolution\u00a0<\/i><\/b>by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter\u00a0<\/i><\/b>is a history and a playbook that features tales from the life of Alexander Hamilton with commentary from the creative team and performers on the musical’s rise to fame. See also\u00a0Alexander Hamilton<\/i>, the biography by Ron\u00a0Chernow, which was the inspiration for the musical.<\/p>\n
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Tara\u00a0Matsuzaki\u00a0is a librarian at the West Vancouver Memorial Library.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BCLA Readers Advisory Interest Group has three titles to recommend to patrons who\u00a0ask the dreaded question, \u201cWhat do you have that\u2019s good?\u201d The poignancy of Paul Kalanithi\u2019s memoir\u00a0When Breath Becomes Air\u00a0is deeply affecting.\u202f At age 36, nearly at the end of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.\u00a0When Breath Becomes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67,61],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-2","category-volume-8-2016","tag-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n