Here are a half-dozen recommended paperbacks, if your bedside table is currently bare.
âThe Magical Language of Othersâ by E.J. Koh
Seattle author Kohâs intergenerational memoir, a recent winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, was inspired by letters written to Koh in Korean by her mother, who left her children behind in California in order to return to South Korea for work.
A reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle described the book as âa wonder: a challenging and deep meditation on how wounds of the past and present inform our relationship with those outside of us, which is to say, everyone.âÂ