One Big Book
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: One Big Book. These count for two squares and are all over 400 pages. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures.
GN = Graphic Novel
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Nonfiction. An anthropologist's chronicle of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present traces the unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention of distinct tribe cultures that assimilated into mainstream life to preserve Native identity. (NoveList)
Format: Book
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The Covenant of Water
Fiction. Three generations of a South Indian family are marked by passions and peccadillos, conditions and ambitions, interventions both medical and divine. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
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Ours
Fiction. This ingenious, sweeping novel introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. (Catalog description)
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Praiseworthy
Fiction. Set in a small town in northern Australia sometime in the 21st century, this novel tells the story, in a fabulist mode teeming with plotlines and ancestral presences, of an Indigenous family’s response to climate catastrophe and longstanding abuse and neglect by a colonial power. (Kirkus)
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To Paradise
Fiction. A triptych of stories set in 1893, 1993, and 2093 explore the fate of humanity, the essential power and sorrow of love, and the unique doom brought upon itself by the United States. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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