SaltyDragon

Enjoying novels with 🗣️ social justice themes, 🧑🏽‍🎤 unusual leads, 🐉 animal companions, + 🪄 funky magic. dabble in nonfiction between novels ND, disabled, + queer human Free 🇵🇸

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The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)

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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

90%

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Asiri and the Amaru (Pisqu Sweet and Sour #1)

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How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Nina McConigley

A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die. According to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West. Her account is, at every turn, cheeky, unflinching, and infectiously inflected with the trappings of teendom, including the magazine quizzes that help her make sense of her life. At its heart, the tale she weaves is: a) a vivid portrait of an extended family b) a moving story of sisterhood c) a playful ode to the 80s d) a murder mystery (of sorts) e) an unexpected and unwaveringly powerful meditation on history and language, trauma and healing, and the meaning of independence Or maybe it’s really: f) all of the above.

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How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Nina McConigley

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The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

C.L. Clark

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

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What We Fed to the Manticore

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss, and family with resounding heart and deep tenderness. In Kolluri’s pages, a faithful hound mourns the loss of the endangered rhino he swore to protect. Vultures seek meaning as they attend to the antelope that perished in Central Asia. A beloved donkey’s loyalty to a zookeeper in Gaza is put to the ultimate test. And a wounded pigeon in Delhi finds an unlikely friend. In striking, immersive detail against the backdrop of an ever-changing international landscape, What We Fed to the Manticore speaks to the fears and joys of the creatures we share our world with, and ultimately places the reader under the rich canopy of the tree of life.

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I Am a Cat

Natsume Sōseki

Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the most significant writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

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Open Throat

Henry Hoke

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience. When a man-made fire engulfs the encampment, the lion is forced from the hills down into the city the hikers call “ellay.” As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats, they take us on a tour that spans the cruel inequalities of Los Angeles and the toll of climate grief. But even when salvation finally seems within reach, they are forced to face down the ultimate Do they want to eat a person, or become one? Henry Hoke’s Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world recounted by a lovable mountain lion. Feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, Open Throat is a star-making novel that brings the mythic to life.

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meet the animals! for animal lovers wondering where to start :)

there are lots and lots of animals represented here!!! i’ve put together a breakdown of allllll the animal povs you’ll find in these books.

PETS (or animals that can be pets)

bunnies: watership down cats: i am a cat, into the wild dogs: fifteen dogs, a dog’s purpose, the plague dogs, flush, white fang, the art of racing in the rain, call of the wild rodents: redwall

FARM AND BARN ANIMALS

sheep and goats: poonachi, three bags full chickens and roosters: the hen who dreamed she could fly horses and ponies: pony confidential, black beauty

OTHER LAND MAMMALS

bears: memoirs of a polar bear big cats: open throat deer: fire bringer elephants: the white bone foxes: a black fox running, the navigating fox, fox 8 pine marten: martin marten

BIRDS

crows: hollow kingdom, mink river

REPTILES

snakes: reptile memoirs turtles/tortoises: timothy, or notes of an abject reptile, the tortoises tale

INSECTS

bees: the bees

WATER DWELLERS

dolphin: pod fish: fishbowl octopus: remarkably bright creatures

MULTI-ANIMAL

glory (includes horses, donkeys, monkeys, pigs, goats, sheeps, crocodiles, and many more) what we fed to the manticore (features stories told from the perspectives of: a donkey, tigers, vultures, dogs, a pigeon, whales, a polar bear - other animals appear as characters as well) shady hollow (includes foxes, ravens, moose, bears, owls, hummingbirds, mice, beavers and other woodland animals) animal farm (includes pigs, horses, donkeys, a raven, chickens, and sheep)

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