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Sendker employs an elaborate secondhand flashback device to send Julia, an American lawyer, to Burma on a hunch that she might find clues to the whereabouts of her Burmese father, Tin Win, a prominent New York celebrity lawyer who was blind as a child and vanished four years ago, apparently of his own volition. ![]() This tearful, circuitous German bestseller traces the lost romance between a blind young monk and a poor crippled girl in pre-WWII Burma. ![]() ![]() Then suddenly his life changed dramatically. He served in the First World War, surviving the Battle of the Somme, where he lost some of his closest friends, and returned to academic life, achieving high repute as a scholar and university teacher, eventually becoming Merton Professor of English at Oxford. 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Luckily, they have the whole megillah to figure it out.Ī Masc for Purim is an angsty, steamy, second chance romance novella between a bisexual butch and her tomboy lesbian. Carrie has spent the last ten years unlearning the internalized ableism that reared its head after her diagnosis of progressive vision loss.Īnd ten years of regretting leaving Liza. the butch who broke her heart into a million pieces, is back in town and determined to win Liza back. She's convinced her role as holiday host is enough to find happiness, but lately, the nights have gotten lonelier.Ĭarrie, a.k.a. Does true love have an expiration date? What about forgiveness?Įvery year, tomboy-femme Liza plans the perfect party for Purim, and every year she goes alone. ![]() |