"Kalian boleh menembak burung bluejay kalau bisa, tapi ingat, kalian berdosa apabila membunuh burung mockingbird". Hidup Scout dan Jem berubah saat ayah mereka menjadi pembela seorang kulit hitam. Ketika Atticus membela seorang yang dianggap sampah masyarakat, kecaman pun datang dari seluruh penjuru. Novel ini menunjukkan betapa prasangka sering kali membutakan manusia. Dan keadilan hanya dapa…
In fact, it’s her job. A favor for a friend in college who was afraid she’d been catfished soon turned into a full-blown business. Now, as the owner of The Ex Files, a matchmaking service based Ocean View, she dates men nearly every day of the week in order to vet them, assuring the matches she makes are perfectly informed and free of heartache. With her job comes pitfalls, though: every…
When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been wai…
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. One terrible morning, Jude and her sisters see their parents murdered in front of them. The fearsome assassin abducts all three girls and brings them to the world of Faerie. Mocked …
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and clas…
I'm standing on the red railway car that sits abandoned next to the barn. The wind soars, whipping my hair across my face and pushing a chill down the open neck of my shirt. The gales are strong this close to the mountain, as if the peak itself is exhaling. Down below, the valley is peaceful, undisturbed. Meanwhile our farm dances: the heavy conifer trees sway slowly, while the sagebrush and t…
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeus is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born, a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of…
Gimana rasanya diputusin setelah berpacaran selama tiga belas tahun? Hidup Gala yang mendadak jomblo semakin runyam ketika adiknya kebelet nikah! Gala bertekad pantang lajang menjelang umur kepala tiga. Bersama ketiga sahabatnya, Nandi, Sydney, dan Detira, strategi pencarian jodoh pun disusun. Darat, udara, bahkan laut "disisir" demi menemukan pria idaman. Akankah Gala berhasil menemukan pasan…
Dan akhirnya tubuhku berdebam melekat ke dasar laut, di antara kerang dan rumput laut disaksikan serombongan ikan-ikan kecil yang tampaknya iba melihatku. Aku menyadari: aku telah mati. Tubuhku akan berada di dasar laut ini selama-selamanya, dan jiwaku telah melayang entah ke mana. Sementara ikan-ikan biru, kuning, ungu, jingga mencium pipiku; seekor kuda laut melayang-layang di hadapanku, aku …
Kisah ini sudah tertinggal puluhan tahun lebih. Maka ibarat seseorang yang ketinggalan kereta, bukan cuma kilau lampu dan getar rel yang telah hilang di tikungan sana, bahkan gerbong dan lokomotifnya sudah karatan dipensiunkan. Cerita ini sudah menguap puluhan tahun lebih. Maka ibarat embun menggelayut malas di daun rumput, rerumputan itu sudah menjadi hutan, tidak tersisa lagi kenangannya. Tet…