Jessica Fain: preference

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…What are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people? I think there's a genre of book I've really fallen in love with. I mentioned Pachinko before. I love historical fiction because it really gives me access into worlds that I don't know. I can't remember who talks about windows and mirrors. Books are windows or mirrors for us. And historical fiction, especially about places where I'm less familiar with that history, is really a window into someone else's experience. And there's a particular type of historical fiction that I've just loved, which is multi-generational historical fiction. Pachinko does this with a family in Korea over generations and moving to Japan. There's a book called Homegoing, which is about the West Coast of Africa and the impact of the slave trade and the ongoing life in Africa from two split parts of the family. History of Burning is a book that tells a story of Indian indentured servants that were brought to Uganda to build the British railroad there and just parts of history that I was so much less familiar with and really treasure that sort of window into a different world. I think the book Overstory is an example of that. Have you heard of that?…

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