Sofia's Staff Picks

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Obit By Victoria Chang Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781556595745
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 7th, 2020

" Read this in one sitting. Let the grief pull up a chair, lay idle."- Sofia


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The Wall By Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by), Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by), Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811231947
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Published: New Directions - June 21st, 2022

" The Wall is a daily log detailed with the survival skills/mundane tasks that comes with fending for yourself in the woods, such as harvesting potatoes or darning a pair of threadbare socks. A mending of human identity through continuous self reflection, pastoral musings,and the uncomfortableness of being completely alone. It is meant to be read slowly, while hanging on to moments of patience for both animals and nature. " - Sofia


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Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works By Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Penberthy (Editor) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780520224346
Published: University of California Press - March 15th, 2004

"An appreciation for the little poems, Lorine words her cyclical routines and daily motions from in and around her cabin. Her permanence on Black Hawk Island remains in the floorboards of the standing cottage, and the archive of correspondences between other poets such as Corman and Zukofsky. As she puts it in her poems remain slow moving and condense, condense, condense."- Sofia


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A Woman's Story By Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translated by) Cover Image
By Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translated by)
$12.95
ISBN: 9781583225752
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Published: Seven Stories Press - August 5th, 2003

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world." - Ernaux


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A Man's Place By Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translated by), Francine Prose (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translated by), Francine Prose (Introduction by)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781609804039
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Published: Seven Stories Press - June 5th, 2012

"Ernaux remembers the small things, piecing together snapshots and words of her father, reminiscing not only of one person but an entire era." - Sofia