by Brandon Shimoda
By the time Brandon Shimoda's grandfather died in 1996, he had been living with Alzheimer's for almost 20 years. Shimoda was then a college freshman, which meant he had had little opportunity to know the man without the disease. Reacting to "the loss--the losing," Shimoda started writing The Grave on the Wall almost a decade ago, collaging other people's memories, documentation and transcripts in search of Midori Shimoda, his father's father. The compelling result is a meditative memoir-of-sorts
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by Naomi Klein
As news about climate change grows more urgent, the writing of journalists like Naomi Klein, who's covered the subject for almost 10 years, has grown more vital than ever. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal collects Klein's finest long-form essays on climate of the previous decade. Organized in chronological order, the collection begins with her 2011 coverage of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a spill so large it's been described as "the largest environmental disaster
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by Jen Wang
When Moon Lin moves next door to Christine Hong, Christine is hesitant to meet this girl who, rumor has it, "beats people up." But Moon proves herself to be "confident," "funny" and the most "not Asian" Chinese-American Christine has ever met ("Really?" Christine's mom asks Moon, "Your mom doesn't speak Chinese to you?"). Christine and Moon quickly become best friends, and Moon shares with Christine that she sees "angel people" who will soon come to return her to her rightful place among the stars. When Christine's
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