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Yet even as they build Sinan’s triumphant masterpieces—the incredible Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques—dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge

But Jialing’s life as the Yangs’ bondservant changes unexpectedly when she befriends a young English girl who then mysteriously vanishes

The beauty of this approach is in the respect the book has for the feeling

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The Overhaul Condition:Good Together they illuminate a longThe Overhaul is Kathleen Jamies first collection since the award winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamies lyric enquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. Whether she is addressing birds or rivers, or the need to accept loss, or sometimes, the desire to escape our own lives, her work is earthy and rigorous, her language at once elemental and tender.