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Critics Highlight Diverse Voices in Recent Book Recommendations

12/10/2025

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Ann Patchett, PBS NewsHour critic, praised The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about two Indian youths navigating cultural identity.
Maureen Corrigan, PBS NewsHour critic, recommended The Antidote by Karen Russell, set around Nebraska's historical events.
The discussion also noted Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me and Judith Giesberg's Last Seen, works about family relationships and enslaved people's search for kin.

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Ann Patchett, PBS NewsHour critic, praised The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about two Indian youths navigating cultural identity.
Maureen Corrigan, PBS NewsHour critic, recommended The Antidote by Karen Russell, set around Nebraska's historical events.
The discussion also noted Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me and Judith Giesberg's Last Seen, works about family relationships and enslaved people's search for kin.