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A cross-country journey to Dr. Mann’s back-up lab in San Francisco by Yorick, his government-appointed protector Agent 355, the doctor and Ampersand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The long-rumored \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y: The Last Man \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TV show is supposedly slated to drop on FX sometime in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is your chance to read it first and brag to all your friends how “the books were way better!” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Bonus:\u003c/strong> After \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Concluded in 2008, co-creator Pia Guerra found her second calling as a sharp political cartoonist for the likes of \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New Yorker\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nib\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and others. You can see some of her notable cartoons on her Instagram account \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pia.guerra/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878357\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-800x1045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-800x1045.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-768x1004.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-1020x1333.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-1920x2509.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover.jpg 1959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Habibi’ by Craig Thompson.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Habibi\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> by Craig Thompson\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craig Thompson is best known for his autobiographical coming-of-age graphic novel, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blankets\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which sees him growing out of his Midwestern hometown and shedding his Evangelical Christian identity. For \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi, \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he sought to better understand Islam while expressing the beauty of Arabic calligraphy and interpreting mystical numerology. The result is one of the finest expressions of the graphic novel medium\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The book’s gorgeous binding makes it easy to mistake for a sacred text, which is fitting for a saga that visually weaves in many stories of the Quran as major motifs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A sweeping epic, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tells the tale of a boy and girl who are raised in the vindictive worlds of slavery and child trafficking in a fictional Middle Eastern locale. The boy, Zam, and the girl, Dodola, meet early in life and forge a loving friendship that is torn apart by the circumstances in which their eventual captors marginalize their human value. While heartbreaking at times, the way Zam and Dodola’s lives diverge and converge throughout the incredibly drawn \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is reminiscent of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slumdog Millionaire\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, without all the Hollywood fanfare. Although sometimes criticized for its Orientalism, the world that multiple Eisner Award winner Thompson creates in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> flows triumphantly like water through the burning desert, bustling medina and brutal cityscape of the fictional Wanatolia. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Memorable quote:\u003c/strong> “That city’s a rich man’s paradise. They waste their treasures.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>Note: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While not available on Kindle or ComiXology, the stunning physical copy of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">just begs to be held as you escape into it. It’s available online through several Bay Area booksellers, including San Francisco’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/habibi-9780375424144/9780375424144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">City Lights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Oakland’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.waldenpondbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walden Pond\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, which also offers the option of a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“safe, sanitized pickup.”\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Strange Planet\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> by Nathan Pyle\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While not quite a graphic novel, Nathan Pyle’s new \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Strange Planet\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> book is a cute and hilarious collection of his webcomics about aliens getting accustomed to the mundane aspects of human life in their rudimentary alien vernacular. Think of a whole family of Robert Heinlein’s Valentine Michael Smith, a Martian who comes to Earth and tries to adapt to earthling customs in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stranger In A Strange Land\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878358\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/StrangePlanetCover-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/StrangePlanetCover-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/StrangePlanetCover-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/StrangePlanetCover-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/StrangePlanetCover-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/StrangePlanetCover.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Strange Planet’ by Nathan Pyle.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pyle’s characters refer to the parent aliens as “lifegivers”; cookies are “sweet disks”; high-fives are “elevated handslaps”; and an alien rationalizes the need to study for a test by proclaiming that “this information is best absorbed by diligent repetition!” This is a sweet series based off of Pyle’s incredibly popular \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nathanwpylestrangeplanet/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram account\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and will certainly help you appreciate life’s simple pleasures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ci>Memorable quote: \u003c/i>\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>[Alien watching\u003c/em> Jeopardy!\u003cem>] \u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I recalled trivial knowledge that none of these beings knew!” \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>This One Summer\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This One Summer\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> does so well is depict the Canadian vacation town of Awago Beach through the eyes of Rose and Windy, two young girls who reunite each year with their families in the town. Author Mariko and illustrator Jillian Tamaki (who are cousins) totally nail the girls’ experience of adolescence. Rose is 12 years old and coming into her own as her parents struggle to keep their marriage together. Windy is 10 and constantly on a carefree sugar high, and is just really good at being a kid. [aside postid='arts_13877670,arts_13877940' label='More Book Recommendations']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pair goes for swims, collects shells and pops into one of the town’s two stores to rent slasher films. We experience\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Awago Beach most vividly when the words cease and we’re left with just Jillian Tamaki’s images of raindrops at twilight, ominous clodhoppers and the lake’s musk filling the dank air. The sense of escapism in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This One Summer\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is powerful, and made me pine for the vacation town my family and I would steal away to when I was a kid. A deadly contention comes to light as the story presses on, and with every turn of the page, the world outside of Awago Beach might as well not even exist.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Memorable quote:\u003c/strong> “You’re not coming in?” “I’m gonna swim along the beach. Home.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These days, graphic novels can be a welcome escape when we find ourselves questioning whether scrolling through Twitter and binge-watching Netflix are the best uses of time while sheltering in place. For me, they can be a way to get over the attention deficit hump of reading a book when I just can’t bring myself to relax and dive in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The visual component heightens the reality of the story, and I find myself transported like a child enamored with a picture book. So let’s take a trip the only way we can right now—in our minds—and read these transcendent graphic novels. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All selections are available on Kindle, the digital comics site \u003ca href=\"https://www.comixology.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ComiXology\u003c/a>, independent booksellers or your local library via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libby\u003c/a> app.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Daytripper\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best dreams feel so real that we want to return to them as soon as we open our eyes. In \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daytripper\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, obituary writer Bras is constantly trying to decide when to live out his dreams. As he tries to put someone else’s life into words, he struggles to make sense of his own. In each chapter, Brazilian twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá show us pivotal moments in their main character’s existence as Bras wonders which exact event might signal his true purpose in life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s hard not to frequently get lost in the incredible depictions of Brazil throughout Bras’ lifetime in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daytripper\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He journeys into the mesa-lined valleys of Bahia, sips coffee amid downtown São Paulo’s post-colonial architecture and travels to the countryside getaway of his youth. This is a story about love, life, success, death and the moments of pause in between, told as one big, colorful dream. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Memorable quote:\u003c/strong> “If you travel too fast, all you’re gonna see is a blur and you’ll never really meet anyone interesting.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/daytripper-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/daytripper-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/daytripper-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/daytripper-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/daytripper-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/daytripper.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from ‘Daytripper’ by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Y: The Last Man\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s seminal \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y: The Last Man \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is as addicting as a binge-worthy TV series. A Y chromosome-killing epidemic swiftly sweeps the Earth, and the world is suddenly ruled by women. All males are dead (people, animals—all of them) except for one: a quick-witted son of a high-ranking congresswoman named Yorick Brown, who fancies himself a Houdini-like escape artist. Oh and Yorick’s pet monkey, Ampersand, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, cloning specialist Dr. Allison Mann might be the only person who can get to the bottom of what sparked the epidemic and, you know, maybe save the world. Trouble is her lab in Boston was torched by either an extremist man-hating group called the Daughters of the Amazon or Israeli military operatives. The only hope? A cross-country journey to Dr. Mann’s back-up lab in San Francisco by Yorick, his government-appointed protector Agent 355, the doctor and Ampersand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The long-rumored \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y: The Last Man \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TV show is supposedly slated to drop on FX sometime in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is your chance to read it first and brag to all your friends how “the books were way better!” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Bonus:\u003c/strong> After \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Y\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Concluded in 2008, co-creator Pia Guerra found her second calling as a sharp political cartoonist for the likes of \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New Yorker\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nib\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and others. You can see some of her notable cartoons on her Instagram account \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pia.guerra/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878357\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-800x1045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-800x1045.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-768x1004.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-1020x1333.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover-1920x2509.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/HabibiCover.jpg 1959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Habibi’ by Craig Thompson.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Habibi\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> by Craig Thompson\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craig Thompson is best known for his autobiographical coming-of-age graphic novel, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blankets\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which sees him growing out of his Midwestern hometown and shedding his Evangelical Christian identity. For \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi, \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he sought to better understand Islam while expressing the beauty of Arabic calligraphy and interpreting mystical numerology. The result is one of the finest expressions of the graphic novel medium\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The book’s gorgeous binding makes it easy to mistake for a sacred text, which is fitting for a saga that visually weaves in many stories of the Quran as major motifs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A sweeping epic, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tells the tale of a boy and girl who are raised in the vindictive worlds of slavery and child trafficking in a fictional Middle Eastern locale. The boy, Zam, and the girl, Dodola, meet early in life and forge a loving friendship that is torn apart by the circumstances in which their eventual captors marginalize their human value. While heartbreaking at times, the way Zam and Dodola’s lives diverge and converge throughout the incredibly drawn \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is reminiscent of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slumdog Millionaire\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, without all the Hollywood fanfare. Although sometimes criticized for its Orientalism, the world that multiple Eisner Award winner Thompson creates in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> flows triumphantly like water through the burning desert, bustling medina and brutal cityscape of the fictional Wanatolia. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Memorable quote:\u003c/strong> “That city’s a rich man’s paradise. They waste their treasures.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>Note: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While not available on Kindle or ComiXology, the stunning physical copy of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habibi \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">just begs to be held as you escape into it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chelsea Bieker’s mother left when she was 9 years old. “Growing up, I was hungry for narratives that were tackling some of the things that I was experiencing and feeling,” she recalls. Whenever she found those stories, she says it felt healing, cathartic—a release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t feel like I was so isolated—it made my experience feel more universal,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bieker’s debut novel \u003ca href=\"https://books.catapult.co/products/godshot-a-novel-by-chelsea-bieker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Godshot\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a devastating drought in a fictional California town has led residents to seek answers in a charismatic cult leader. Narrator Lacey May is 14 years old when her mother abandons her.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878264 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-07-at-1.17.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-07-at-1.17.25-PM.png 304w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-07-at-1.17.25-PM-160x244.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bieker understands that, at a time when readers are facing real world fears about coronavirus, it might feel like an odd moment to immerse oneself in a fictional world of drought, chaos and childhood trauma. But Bieker believes this difficult time of quiet and isolation is an invitation to look at ourselves in new ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that fiction asks us to turn toward the difficult parts in our own lives and our own selves to try to find some sort of grace …” she says. “Art can help me ask the difficult questions of myself and then try to answer them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there’s time to watch Netflix—we all have to find the balance that’s right for us. But “leaning in to some of the things that might be coming up during this time can be valuable, too,” Bieker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the challenges she faced growing up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was raised by two alcoholic parents and all of the trauma and stress that comes with that. But mainly when I was 9, my mother left and she didn’t come back. And so I was dealing with this grief of this really confusing loss. Because she didn’t die—it wasn’t like I could really have any closure with that grief. But she had just left and she was existing somewhere else. So around 9, I was kind of forced to reckon with this loss that I didn’t know how to categorize at the time. Now I know to call it grief and I have a language for it. But when I was a child, I wanted to find books that reflected that in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why she decided the characters in the book would belong to a cult\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted those characters to have to grapple with the devastation of the land in a very deep way. And the way these people are handling it is through spiritual outlets. They’re not looking to science. They’re not looking to facts to explain what’s happening around them. But they have this leader who’s promising that if they behave a certain way, if they do certain things, they are in control, somehow. They will please God and restore the land. So while on one hand, these characters are really ignoring climate change, and facts, and politics—they’re not in that space at all. [But] they’re also taking this really intense responsibility in their own way—however misguided. And they’re trying to make things right. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People want to feel like they’re on the right track—that they’re doing something meaningful in their lives. … The promise of a future paradise is very alluring. And that’s definitely what the characters in this book are being drawn to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the women who live on the outskirts of town and operate a phone sex line—and why they are a lifeline for Lacey May\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s her way out. It’s a window into another way of living. And it’s also a place that she learns about her body for the first time in a really practical way. These are women who are connected to their bodies. They are empowered in their bodies in different ways. And she’s seeing that really for the first time. She’s coming from a place of absolutely no sex education and being forced to kind of self-educate. And these women provide this other kind of door to this other way of thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Lacey May seeking out other mother-daughter relationships\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think Lacey May realizes after her mother leaves that she’s going to have to go on sort of a search for another sort of mothering. And she does find that through these sort of unlikely friendships with these other women throughout the book. And I think in turn, she’s able to understand her own mother in a different way through their lens—which is important because she begins to see her mother not only as her mother, who has failed her in many ways, but as a person who’s fallible and someone that there may be hope for, compassion for one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether that mirrors her own experience\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My love for my mother never wavered through any of it. … When I look back over my experience—and the experience certainly isn’t over, it’s something I continue to process today, especially as a mother to my own children—but the love for my mother that I’ve had has grown and evolved in its own way and it’s really never left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I wanted the book to … characterize that. That despite all odds, there is still a remaining connection and love between this mother and daughter and the hope for it to restore in a traditional sense—where the mother comes back and life resumes happy as ever, that’s never going to happen—but there can be a hope toward another kind of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her current relationship with her mother\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do have a relationship with my mother. We never really stopped having one. … I’ve actually noticed since I had my own children six years ago, my mother and I are able to connect in a different way and I really enjoy our time talking when we’re able to have it. … I’ve been able to see the beauty in a really non-conventional connection and take what we can get, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what her novel says about blind obedience to charismatic leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think part of what \u003cem>Godshot \u003c/em>is doing is that it’s prompting us to ask questions and not to accept a package solution that seems to be rooted in this big group think. I think that’s dangerous. And I think the characters in the book slowly realize that. And they do begin to question, they do begin to access their own curiosity, and find their own answers. 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"content": "\u003cp>At this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13873896/kobe-bryant-honored-throughout-the-62nd-grammy-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grammy Awards\u003c/a> (which, believe it or not, were only a couple months—and not decades—ago), YG, Roddy Rich, DJ Khaled, Meek Mill and John Legend paid homage to late icons Nipsey Hussle and Kobe Bryant in an uplifting choral performance in front of 18.7 million viewers. At various points throughout the segment, red and blue lights flooded the stage—an homage to YG’s Blood and Hussle’s Crip affiliations, both referenced proudly in their chart-topping songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did Los Angeles gang culture, springing from the particular conditions of a city’s marginalization and violence, become such a defining feature of American pop culture and music? 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In the late ’80s, the period the book spends the most time on, the earliest gangster rap was made for and by black youth who were vilified by the media, government and elders in their own communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids who were making music in the ’80s, and may not be active in the gangs but are affiliated because they go to school with gang members, they live in neighborhoods with gang members, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. You’re compelled to socialize with gang culture, and then you’re demonized for it,” she says. “So you’re kind of doubly marginalized: you’re marginalized by outside society that sees you as a criminal, and you’re also marginalized within your own community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To Live and Defy in L.A.\u003c/em> explores how L.A.’s teen gangs became a media boogeyman, and how civil unrest during the 1992 Rodney King riots broadcasted black L.A.’s frustrations with police brutality and poverty to the rest of the country. Conditions became ripe for America to tune into what Los Angeles’ street poets had to say. Artists like Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre tapped into a longstanding fascination with L.A.’s criminal underbelly with PR cunning and business savvy, and gangster rap became an enormous commercial phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viator argues that it injected hip-hop with a new cultural relevance in the ’90s. At the time, early innovators lamented that, with Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer as the genre’s most visible faces, it had gone commercial and lost its edge. “I wanted to understand how you get to the point where an artist like Tupac becomes this celebrated hero when prior to ’91, not only do people think hip-hop is dead, but L.A. is softer than New York and can’t produce something viable,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877994\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13877994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Angeja Viator.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viator began ruminating on the ideas in \u003cem>To Live and Defy in L.A.\u003c/em> long before she had a PhD. The Oakland native started her career in the ’90s as a DJ, and performed in the Bay Area Sister Sound crew with the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13818092/pam-the-funkstress-pioneering-bay-area-dj-passes-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pam the Funkstress\u003c/a>, an Oakland legend best known for her work with the Coup and Prince. In addition to spinning rap records, Viator wanted to read about them. She found that early academic writing on the subject focused primarily on New York. 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Throughout the book, social issues, politics and the art engaging with them are linked. We learn the advent of the battering ram—a six ton, tank-like vehicle LAPD used to break into suspected crack houses—became a catalyst for an early, influential underground hit of the genre, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cm1Li2Wbqo4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Batterram\u003c/a>” by Toddy Tee. [aside postid='arts_13877670']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrics of “Batterram”—“I’m not the one slinging ’caine / I work nine to five and ain’t a damn thing changed”—give insight into the ways LAPD’s efforts to stamp out gang culture ensnared young people into a web of violence and trauma. And, as Viator points out, it paved the way for N.W.A.’s 1988 smash “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/qZuxPKUVGiw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fuck tha Police\u003c/a>”—which, four years later, became the soundtrack of the L.A. riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its focus on a fairly narrow geography and time period, \u003cem>To Live and Defy in L.A.\u003c/em> doesn’t give the complete story of gangster rap. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viator argues that it injected hip-hop with a new cultural relevance in the ’90s. At the time, early innovators lamented that, with Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer as the genre’s most visible faces, it had gone commercial and lost its edge. “I wanted to understand how you get to the point where an artist like Tupac becomes this celebrated hero when prior to ’91, not only do people think hip-hop is dead, but L.A. is softer than New York and can’t produce something viable,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877994\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13877994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Viator-Profile.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Angeja Viator.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viator began ruminating on the ideas in \u003cem>To Live and Defy in L.A.\u003c/em> long before she had a PhD. The Oakland native started her career in the ’90s as a DJ, and performed in the Bay Area Sister Sound crew with the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13818092/pam-the-funkstress-pioneering-bay-area-dj-passes-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pam the Funkstress\u003c/a>, an Oakland legend best known for her work with the Coup and Prince. In addition to spinning rap records, Viator wanted to read about them. She found that early academic writing on the subject focused primarily on New York. When they mentioned gangster rap, those texts spoke of it as more of a blight than a serious art form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing how big L.A. rap was by the mid ’90s, I was shocked there was so little interest in it except to talk about gangster rappers as modern day minstrels or reference the big West Coast success stories as these parables about white industry villains and black victims,” she says. “There was this flat, simplistic way in which the early hip-hop scholars were talking about L.A. rap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand gangster rap’s earliest origins, Viator zooms out and takes a long view of California history. The histories of the Great Migration, policing and youth culture as a source of resistance are interwoven throughout \u003cem>To Live and Defy in L.A.\u003c/em>, making for a fast-paced and engaging read for music fans, history buffs and anyone with an interest in social justice. Throughout the book, social issues, politics and the art engaging with them are linked. We learn the advent of the battering ram—a six ton, tank-like vehicle LAPD used to break into suspected crack houses—became a catalyst for an early, influential underground hit of the genre, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cm1Li2Wbqo4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Batterram\u003c/a>” by Toddy Tee. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Professor Alice Kaplan has been scrambling to revise her lectures for the French literature class she teaches at Yale University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the syllabus, coincidentally, for her online class is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/337135825/the-plague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> Albert Camus’ 1947 novel about a plague epidemic that ravages a quarantined city in Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic,” Kaplan says. “I never imagined I’d need to give a trigger warning for teaching Camus’ \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan has students taking her class virtually from Hong Kong and from Wuhan, China, the city that was the early center of the global COVID-19 pandemic. “They’re really feeling this in a way that no other readers have ever felt this novel before,” Kaplan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of many readers who are revisiting and rethinking literature about mass disease in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/publishers-report-sales-boom-in-novels-about-fictional-epidemics-camus-the-plague-dean-koontz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skyrocketed\u003c/a> in Europe as people search for \u003ca href=\"https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/pourquoi-nous-relisons-la-peste-de-camus-20200317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meaning\u003c/a> in the midst of the outbreak. Coincidentally, Kaplan is writing the preface for a new translation of the novel. She spent December walking the streets of Oran, the Algerian city beset by plague in the book, and she’s just returned from France, where, she says, you can’t pick up \u003ca href=\"https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/02/28/l-epidemie-est-politique_1780041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a newspaper\u003c/a> without seeing a reference to the novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are saying in the French press, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,” Kaplan says. “Almost as though this novel were a vaccine—not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing, but something that can help heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camus used the plague as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/17/albertcamus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegory for war\u003c/a>: a reflection on the Nazi occupation of France and the stubborn acts of resistance against it. His character Dr. Rieux explains his tenacious persistence in fighting the plague this way: “There’s no question of heroism in all this. It’s a matter of common decency. … I don’t know what it means for other people. But in my case, I know that it consists in doing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “common decency” embodied in Dr. Rieux’s struggle against the plague has special resonance now. “We think about this when we see our health care workers today,” Kaplan says. “The love and the solidarity and the dedication through death and loss—that was very meaningful to Camus,” she says. “He was talking about resistance, and about how people can come together in a situation to resist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan sees echoes, too, in today’s global uncertainty about just how long the pandemic will last, and how long cities will be locked down. “After the Nazis invaded France, no one knew how long it would last,” she says. “Some people thought they needed to adapt to a whole new world where France would always be part of a German Nazi empire. And then other people thought it would be over in a couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camus’ novel, the plague is more than a diabolical external force imposing its will. Camus writes, “Each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth is free from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As professor Kaplan sees it, “[Camus is] talking about our shadow. I think he’s talking about our capacity to do harm. He says at some point, ‘There’s more to admire in man than to despise.’ But, you know, it’s a contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final paragraph of the novel warns that the plague bacillus is always lurking, biding its time, waiting for the day, Camus writes, “when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a message of vigilance,” Kaplan concludes. “It’s a message against complacency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubonic plague is also the affliction at the center of the novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/137957691/year-of-wonders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Year of Wonders\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://geraldinebrooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geraldine Brooks\u003c/a>. Set in 1665, it draws on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35064071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">true story\u003c/a> of the tiny English village of Eyam (pronounced Eem). Brooks stumbled on the history during a ramble through the English countryside, when she saw a sign pointing to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-latest-eyam-bubonic-plague-village-lessons-parallels-a9414306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plague Village\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that just intrigued me,” Brooks says. “It’s one of our most primal fears as human beings, the idea of this silent stalking killer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her novel, Brooks describes the extraordinary action taken by the villagers of Eyam: They decided to voluntarily quarantine their town, keeping the plague inside. By some estimates, two-thirds of the villagers perished. They suffered ghastly deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a huge cost to the villagers,” Brooks says, “because a lot of those might have survived if they’d fled early in the outbreak. But on the other hand, that act of self-sacrifice meant that the plague did not spread beyond Eyam into the surrounding communities, and so many thousands, perhaps, of lives were saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that momentous moral choice—risking their own lives to protect others—that Brooks finds so provocative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How did this life and death decision come about?” she wonders. “What was the thing that moved people’s hearts? And then once you’ve made that decision, how do you live with the consequences of it, when day following day you lose another person that you love?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, Brooks finds herself asking this question: Who will \u003cem>I\u003c/em> be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will I be my best self?” she asks. “Or will I become a selfish monster? Will I be the person pushing my neighbor away to grab the last roll of toilet paper, on a trivial level? I think it’s a challenge for us all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 2019 novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/686701225/the-dreamers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Dreamers,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> writer \u003ca href=\"http://karenthompsonwalker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Thompson Walker\u003c/a> conjures up a mysterious virus: a deadly, highly-contagious sleeping sickness that descends on a college town in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the town is cordoned off by the military, there is one last wedding, with a bride who’s grown pale and woozy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker writes, “Whoever shares her lipstick that day, whoever borrows her eyeliner, whoever kisses her cheek that night or dances too close or clinks her flute of champagne, whoever touches her hand to admire the ring, whoever catches the bouquet at the end of the night—all of them, every one, is exposed. This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In parallel with today’s pandemic, the characters in Walker’s novel confront a shortage of face masks. There is a panicked run on supermarkets. Waves through a window to loved ones under quarantine. Talk of it all being a hoax. And, just as now, the impossibility of knowing what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that I’m interested in, in general, as a writer,” Walker says. “What it’s like for human beings to live with a kind of radical uncertainty. We never do know what’s going to happen, but there are certain times like the situation in my book or the situation we’re in now where that feeling of uncertainty is right at the forefront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the literature she’s turning to in this uncertain, troubled time, Walker says, it’s not books about disease and dystopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been finding solace in the poetry of \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Oliver.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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She spent December walking the streets of Oran, the Algerian city beset by plague in the book, and she’s just returned from France, where, she says, you can’t pick up \u003ca href=\"https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/02/28/l-epidemie-est-politique_1780041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a newspaper\u003c/a> without seeing a reference to the novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are saying in the French press, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,” Kaplan says. “Almost as though this novel were a vaccine—not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing, but something that can help heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camus used the plague as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/17/albertcamus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegory for war\u003c/a>: a reflection on the Nazi occupation of France and the stubborn acts of resistance against it. His character Dr. Rieux explains his tenacious persistence in fighting the plague this way: “There’s no question of heroism in all this. It’s a matter of common decency. … I don’t know what it means for other people. But in my case, I know that it consists in doing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “common decency” embodied in Dr. Rieux’s struggle against the plague has special resonance now. “We think about this when we see our health care workers today,” Kaplan says. “The love and the solidarity and the dedication through death and loss—that was very meaningful to Camus,” she says. “He was talking about resistance, and about how people can come together in a situation to resist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan sees echoes, too, in today’s global uncertainty about just how long the pandemic will last, and how long cities will be locked down. “After the Nazis invaded France, no one knew how long it would last,” she says. “Some people thought they needed to adapt to a whole new world where France would always be part of a German Nazi empire. And then other people thought it would be over in a couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camus’ novel, the plague is more than a diabolical external force imposing its will. Camus writes, “Each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth is free from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As professor Kaplan sees it, “[Camus is] talking about our shadow. I think he’s talking about our capacity to do harm. He says at some point, ‘There’s more to admire in man than to despise.’ But, you know, it’s a contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final paragraph of the novel warns that the plague bacillus is always lurking, biding its time, waiting for the day, Camus writes, “when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a message of vigilance,” Kaplan concludes. “It’s a message against complacency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubonic plague is also the affliction at the center of the novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/137957691/year-of-wonders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Year of Wonders\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://geraldinebrooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geraldine Brooks\u003c/a>. Set in 1665, it draws on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35064071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">true story\u003c/a> of the tiny English village of Eyam (pronounced Eem). Brooks stumbled on the history during a ramble through the English countryside, when she saw a sign pointing to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-latest-eyam-bubonic-plague-village-lessons-parallels-a9414306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plague Village\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that just intrigued me,” Brooks says. “It’s one of our most primal fears as human beings, the idea of this silent stalking killer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her novel, Brooks describes the extraordinary action taken by the villagers of Eyam: They decided to voluntarily quarantine their town, keeping the plague inside. By some estimates, two-thirds of the villagers perished. They suffered ghastly deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a huge cost to the villagers,” Brooks says, “because a lot of those might have survived if they’d fled early in the outbreak. But on the other hand, that act of self-sacrifice meant that the plague did not spread beyond Eyam into the surrounding communities, and so many thousands, perhaps, of lives were saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that momentous moral choice—risking their own lives to protect others—that Brooks finds so provocative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How did this life and death decision come about?” she wonders. “What was the thing that moved people’s hearts? And then once you’ve made that decision, how do you live with the consequences of it, when day following day you lose another person that you love?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, Brooks finds herself asking this question: Who will \u003cem>I\u003c/em> be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will I be my best self?” she asks. “Or will I become a selfish monster? Will I be the person pushing my neighbor away to grab the last roll of toilet paper, on a trivial level? I think it’s a challenge for us all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 2019 novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/686701225/the-dreamers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Dreamers,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> writer \u003ca href=\"http://karenthompsonwalker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Thompson Walker\u003c/a> conjures up a mysterious virus: a deadly, highly-contagious sleeping sickness that descends on a college town in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the town is cordoned off by the military, there is one last wedding, with a bride who’s grown pale and woozy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker writes, “Whoever shares her lipstick that day, whoever borrows her eyeliner, whoever kisses her cheek that night or dances too close or clinks her flute of champagne, whoever touches her hand to admire the ring, whoever catches the bouquet at the end of the night—all of them, every one, is exposed. This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In parallel with today’s pandemic, the characters in Walker’s novel confront a shortage of face masks. There is a panicked run on supermarkets. Waves through a window to loved ones under quarantine. Talk of it all being a hoax. And, just as now, the impossibility of knowing what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that I’m interested in, in general, as a writer,” Walker says. “What it’s like for human beings to live with a kind of radical uncertainty. We never do know what’s going to happen, but there are certain times like the situation in my book or the situation we’re in now where that feeling of uncertainty is right at the forefront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the literature she’s turning to in this uncertain, troubled time, Walker says, it’s not books about disease and dystopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Firstly, let me say this column started out quite differently. You see, I began writing it more than a week ago, and since then life has certainly changed in my house, as I am sure it has in yours. Frankly, things have changed so much, I wasn’t sure I would even get this column written, what with spring break and now school closures (I’m writing it in 10-minute increments, as it is). While my kids’ teachers work feverishly to prepare lessons to send home, I’ve been working on my own home-schooling plan—which, as a former teacher I take very seriously, and as you already-homeschool-parents know, is a heck of a lot of work (especially if you are as regimented and schedule-bound as I am).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I had a revelation as I was working out the science experiments, fractions worksheets, diagramming worksheets (yes, diagramming. No one will ever stop me from loving it). I was still going to write a column about the same books, but for different reasons. You see, Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos have two new books, but I’m not writing about them because they are new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m writing about them because they are saving the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, after our nature walk, and math (let’s get that out of the way early) my kids have structured reading/history time, after which they have to give an oral report. Since they’re at different reading levels, it’s quite a challenge to find books that will engage them all and not require me to fuss at them, “one at a time, please, ONE AT A TIME!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003cem>Ordinary People Change the World\u003c/em> series fits the bill to a T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t seen the Ordinary People books—\u003cem>I am Jane Goodall, I am Jackie Robinson, I am Jim Henson\u003c/em>, et. al., you are really missing out. When I was a kid, I devoured the Value Tales, and the Childhood of Famous Americans books; I mean, I can’t even count how many books I read about Helen Keller and Annie Oakley, not to mention Susan B. Anthony and Clara Barton—hey, would you look at that? All women, who knew? I had considered starting my kids on those, but looking back over them, I was worried they might not be particularly accurate, much less entertaining for kids reared on graphic novels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Meltzer and Eliopoulos had my back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew they wanted kids to admire real people, not reality show or video game stars, or superheroes, people of character, not just fame. They wanted kids to know ordinary people of extraordinary character can change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an ordinary person, that mission speaks to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13877901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"Moments from the 'I Am Amelia Earhart' and 'I Am Jim Henson' books.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moments from the ‘I Am Amelia Earhart’ and ‘I Am Jim Henson’ books.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was able to speak to Meltzer, he explained that he wanted a surefire winner for his first subject, a hero his kids couldn’t help but get excited about, someone guaranteed to be a real inspiration from the word “go.” He thought of his adventurous daughter, and settled upon Amelia Earhart. I mean, why not? How could the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean be anything but a hit, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t quite that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidently, for modern kids, a woman flying across the ocean was not enough to elicit more than “oh, that’s cool.” So Meltzer dug deeper, determined to find the hook. It turns out that what excited his daughter about Amelia Earhart wasn’t the airplane she flew over the ocean as an adult, but rather the roller coaster she built in her backyard as a child (and the crash that followed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several decisions came from that Eureka! moment. First, cartoonist Christopher Eliopoulous (\u003cem>Misery Loves Sherman\u003c/em>), with his extraordinary ability to draw children, would be a co-creator of the series, and second, they would research every subject extensively so as not to miss what might be an incredibly interesting detail. (When I say extensively, I mean EXTENSIVELY—Meltzer was able to gain access to Walt Disney’s entire archive when he was working on \u003cem>I am Walt Disney\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another very important decision for me, worried about the accuracy of those books I read as a child, was that if one of Meltzer and Eliopoulos’ heroes were imperfect (and who isn’t), they wouldn’t hide it. Meltzer says they wanted every kid to know that imperfect—not just ordinary, but imperfect—people can do extraordinary things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am glad I knew about the Ordinary People series before we entered this crisis. My kids have loved the books for a long time, and when my son’s teacher asked me to come in and read a book about an important African American figure during Black History month, I knew I would read \u003cem>I am Harriet Tubman\u003c/em>. The fourth grade loved it. They just had to pass the book around and look at all the pictures, and they were devastated to learn that Harriet Tubman had to sell her underwear to finance her work (they were a little grossed out too—I mean, PERFECT for the fourth grade).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as we face an extended period of time at home, we will continue to have our structured reading/history time with the Ordinary People series, even on top of all the work my kids’ teachers have sent home. And the new book, \u003cem>I am Leonardo da Vinci—\u003c/em>out in April—couldn’t have come at a better time. My kids look forward to it, and Meltzer and Eliopoulos have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com/Activities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activity sheets\u003c/a> on their website that I can use, even an entire teacher’s guide for the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope that in this difficult time we can all find comfort in the ordinary people of extraordinary character who are doing so much to help, be they teachers, doctors, janitors, elder care workers, restaurant owners, administrators, or even our own parents (that one’s for you, my kids)—all the people who may not end up in an “I am” book, but are heroic all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Juanita Giles is the founder and executive director of the Virginia Children’s Book Festival. She lives on a farm in Southern Virginia with her family.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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But physical distancing doesn’t have to mean that we are disconnected or glued to our phones—this can also be a time for deep contemplation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Arts & Culture and the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/truthbetold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truth Be Told \u003c/a>\u003c/em>podcast team asked our readers and listeners, \u003cem>What books have shaped your life?\u003c/em> We wanted to know why these books had an impact and why they are still markers of a change—in heart, mind or understanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we gathered from our staff and you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>Black Boy\u003c/em> by Richard Wright\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I first read \u003cem>Black Boy\u003c/em>, a memoir by Richard Wright, in elementary school and my mind was blown! At that age, racism was an abstract concept, and this book changed that for me. In vivid detail, \u003cem>Black Boy\u003c/em> illustrates how racism degrades a black boy and lays out the role he must play in America. Because of this book, I remember feeling an immense amount of understanding for what I was seeing in my life as a young girl living in poverty in Detroit. The choices the boys in my life were making to survive the crime in our neighborhoods—it all became clear to me that this was a manifestation of what happens to the oppressed under the weight of racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This book was the turning point and a stepping stone towards my understanding of this country.—\u003cem>Tonya Mosley, \u003c/em>Truth Be Told\u003cem> host\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877759\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 432px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13877759 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-henrietta-lacks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-henrietta-lacks.jpg 432w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-henrietta-lacks-160x237.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ by Rebecca Skloot \u003ccite>(Crown Publishing Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u003c/em> by Rebecca Skloot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I read \u003cem>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u003c/em> while in the hospital. The book broke down everything that was exploitative, neglectful and abusive about our medical system. Henrietta’s legacy paved the way for so many modern medical milestones; her body’s cells, HeLa cells, helped scientists create the polio and HPV vaccines, map the human genome, advance treatment for AIDS, cancer and autoimmune disease, and so much more. Why was her story never mentioned when I was in school? Many of us owe our individual and public health to Henrietta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book, Skloot and the Lacks family illustrate ways the medical system profits off of and reinforces poverty, racism and sexism. This is the reality many people live in—a reality my family and I grew up with. Henrietta’s story is just as relevant, if not more so, today as our healthcare system leaves behind millions and keeps many more in poverty. It was both empowering to read about my connection to Henrietta’s history and sobering to know we have a long way to go.\u003cem>—Vida Kuang, KQED Arts & Culture intern\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>All About Love\u003c/em> by bell hooks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A dear friend recommended this book after he read it himself and I was so nervous to read it. I wasn’t ready to digest how I learned about love and how it shaped my past and present. I was a college sophomore, and not in a romantic relationship, but I knew I had so many family triggers and traumas that informed whom I chose to date and who I was as a partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I read the book, it definitely hit my core. I saw how my chosen family was a better reflection of how I wanted to be loved and by whom. I saw how I was being pulled between the familiar and what I desired for my future self. I learned more about how my personal relationships to the men and women in my family were rooted in culture and capitalism, in fear and love, and in pain and hope. hooks opened my eyes and made me take a real hard look at my relationship with myself, how I interpreted my own worth and what I gave inherent value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It basically started my marathon of reading all of bell hooks’ work, which have all tended to a wound I refused to let heal.\u003cem>—Isabeth Mendoza, engagement producer for \u003c/em>Truth Be Told\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877762\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 449px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13877762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-mastry-of-love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-mastry-of-love.jpg 449w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-mastry-of-love-160x228.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Mastery of Love’ by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills \u003ccite>(Amber-Allen Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>The Mastery of Love\u003c/em> by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I look back at the summer of 2019 as a tumultuous time when I struggled to connect with others and myself. 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It educated me and expanded my notions of possibilities. It guides me (to this day) towards bridging, connection, healing and justice.\u003cem>—Ruben E. Canedo Sanchez\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>Assata: An Autobiography\u003c/em> by Assata Shakur\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Assata: An Autobiography\u003c/em> is so meaningful to me. I can pick up this book at any moment and be reminded of why social justice work is powerful and necessary! It reminds me to keep fighting for the change I want to see in the world because Assata never stopped imagining a liberated life, even while in prison. Assata is magic and the epitome of bravery. 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I was a college sophomore, and not in a romantic relationship, but I knew I had so many family triggers and traumas that informed whom I chose to date and who I was as a partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I read the book, it definitely hit my core. I saw how my chosen family was a better reflection of how I wanted to be loved and by whom. I saw how I was being pulled between the familiar and what I desired for my future self. 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Law school curtailed my time; and with quality time being my love language, it was hard to appreciate those I love and feel appreciated back. \u003cem>The Mastery of Love\u003c/em> has and continues to teach me to be free, willing and loving with myself and others. To not expect anything, to let go of fears from my past that have made me create barriers. It reminded me that happiness and love are within me—I create them. It is crucial to love and appreciate myself first instead of trying to find it in people or activities.\u003cem>—Sureyma Gonzalez\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>Borderlands/La Frontera\u003c/em> by Gloria E. Anzaldúa\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I grew up in the border cities of Calexico and Mexicali. I had never read a book by someone who had also grown up in a borderland. I had never read a book that used borderlands as a theoretical invitation to [explore how] borderlands are made by culture, ideology, institutions and systems. It educated me and expanded my notions of possibilities. It guides me (to this day) towards bridging, connection, healing and justice.\u003cem>—Ruben E. Canedo Sanchez\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>Assata: An Autobiography\u003c/em> by Assata Shakur\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Assata: An Autobiography\u003c/em> is so meaningful to me. I can pick up this book at any moment and be reminded of why social justice work is powerful and necessary! It reminds me to keep fighting for the change I want to see in the world because Assata never stopped imagining a liberated life, even while in prison. Assata is magic and the epitome of bravery. I keep her in mind when educating and organizing in my community always.\u003cem>—Stephanie Franco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877755\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 425px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13877755 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-dear-girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-dear-girls.jpg 425w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/640-dear-girls-160x241.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Dear Girls’ by Ali Wong \u003ccite>(Penguin Random House LLC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cem>Dear Girls\u003c/em> by Ali Wong\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ali Wong’s funny and touching \u003cem>Dear Girls\u003c/em> left a mark on me because I relate to so many parts of her. 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