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Ting has so many casseroles. We meet Helen's nemesis. Everyone agrees to the rules to Alaskan Baseball.
posted by The corpse in the library on Apr 11, 2025 - 7 comments

Siaja sets out to retrieve the guinea pigs and gets a job. Alistair walks around in just a towel for important plot reasons.
posted by The corpse in the library on Apr 11, 2025 - 4 comments

Siaja is an Inuk woman living in a teeny Arctic village. She isn't happy and she's trying to figure out how to sort out her life. She wants a job, and a better relationship with her family. She makes a big, public change and has to figure out how to live with it.
posted by jessamyn on Jan 22, 2025 - 6 comments

At a crumbling arctic meteorological station, two men work in isolation taking readings and reporting them over the radio. Pavel is young and unfocussed, naturally resentful of the older, grumpier Sergei. Bored senseless waiting for the job to be over, Pavel is unprepared for the test of his character that arrives instead. [more inside]
posted by fleacircus on Feb 18, 2019 - 4 comments

High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists marks this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars from Caribbean cane fields to the fringes of the frozen Arctic and across a whole ocean. (Opening line from Kirkus Review, one of many publications to list Esi Edugyan's novel among the best fiction of 2018). Booker Prize shortlisted nominee. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 2, 2019 - 3 comments