(Slumdog Millionare) or Q & A by Vikas Swarup is the book that is supposed to be even better than the movie!
Other books proposed at the March 19 meeting:
Descartes' Bone by Shorto
Peace Like a River
Skeletons at the Feast by Bohjslian
Dreams of my Father by Obama
A Separate Peace (Roxy loves this one)
Infidel by Ali
Books David likes like McCollough
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner and Jackson J. Benson
More I'm thinking about:
Things Fall Apart (Nigeria before colonialism) by Chinua Achebe
The Darker Nations: People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad (Non-fiction)
The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone by Myra MacPherson
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
Searching for Hassan by Terence Ward
In the Time of Butterfly by Julia Alvarez (Dominican history)
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Nahai
