Reading List: Alum Bonnie Hammer Publishes 15 Lies Women Are Told at Work—Plus Fiction, Poetry, and Short Stories
Alumni books that caught our eye
Reading List: Alum Bonnie Hammer Publishes 15 Lies Women Are Told at Work—Plus Fiction, Poetry, and Short Stories
Alumni books that caught our eye
15 Lies Women Are Told at WorkSimon Element, 2024
By Bonnie Hammer (CGS’69, COM’71, Wheelock’75, Hon.’17)
Subtitled …And the Truth We Need to Succeed, this book, by the vice chair of NBCUniversal, rejects the old tropes about how women are “supposed” to act at work and offers commonsense mentoring.
Children of the WatchersWhenceforth Publishing, 2023
By Henry Ahn (ENG’94) (pen name
Michael Joseph)
In this fantasy novel, a group of BU first-year friends learn how their lives are connected, what’s the deal with that “haunted” lecture hall, and why the “watchers” are keeping an eye on their friend Rob.
Displaced PersonsNew American Press, 2024
By Joan Leegant (LAW’75)
Set in Israel and the United States, the stories in Leegant’s prize-winning collection explore what it means to be an exile or to call a place home, and the various transitory states in between.
Forget about SleepNew York Quarterly Books, 2024
By Miriam Levine (CAS’63, GRS’65)
Levine’s poetry collection won the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award for its examination of a life of memories of love, family, loss, and the natural world.
The House Before Falling into the SeaDial Books, 2024
By Ann Suk Wang (COM’97)
When a young girl’s family takes in refugees as the Korean War rages around them, she learns the true value of caring for others. Wang’s debut picture book is illustrated by Hanna Cha.
A Murder in HollywoodSourcebooks, 2024
By Casey Sherman (COM’93)
Subtitled The Untold Story of Tinseltown’s Most Shocking Crime, the book takes a new look at the case involving movie star Lana Turner, her daughter Cheryl Crane, and the gangster Johnny Stompanato.
Noura’s Crescent MoonCandlewick Press, 2024
By Zainab Khan (CAS’97)
A young Muslim girl waits for the sign of the end of Ramadan in Khan’s debut picture book, illustrated by Nabila Adani.
The NotesCrown Books for Young Readers, 2024
By Catherine Con Morse (GRS’14)
The novel, by the former coordinator of BU’s Creative Writing Program, is about the dreams, fears, and stresses of a Chinese American teen pianist at a Southern performing arts boarding school.
Tiny ExtravaganzasArrowsmith, 2023
By Diane Mehta (GRS’94)
Mehta’s poetry collection limns the power of art through the beauty of language, and even touches on the pandemic.
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra LeoneUniversity of Georgia Press, 2023
By Marc Sommers (GRS’90,’94)
Sommers‘ vivid probe of the civil war in that nation looks at the influence of three Western icons: Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and…Rambo.
ZanDzanc Books, 2024
By Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh (GRS’16)
These stories, by an Iranian American author who grew up in Tehran, examine the conflicts facing contemporary Iranian women raised under the Islamic regime—those who stayed to navigate life in their native country and those who left but still must reconcile their identities.
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