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I re-read a short favorite: Letter from New York by Helene Hanff. A collection of monthly 5-minute talks she gave for the BBC’s Women’s Hour program in the 80’s. This is my second favorite Hanff after 84, Charing Cross Road (which I re-read almost yearly).

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The Joy Luck Club! Somehow I never read it when it came out. It’s been on my shelf since 1990. Not the traditional plot driven story arc but the life tales of four women in China during the war with Japan and their relationships with their daughters after emigration to the U S are so funny and compelling and painfully sad. I could not put it down.

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