We've also included other categories these books could be used for.
If you have already read a book by an author in a visible minority, any of these titles can be used for the Reading Challenge category "A book recommended to you by library staff". Here are some of our staff's favourite books in this category. We're hoping readers will explore a diversity of books with this challenge – so this month, we decided to ask staff about their favourite books for the category, "A book by an author from a visible minority". “I made an impulsive choice to change and it took about 11 years to pan out.Are you taking our 2019 Reading Challenge? So are library staff all across the city. “I thought the closest I could get to literature would be as a professor, but as I got started in the program, I realized it really wasn’t making me as interested or as happy as I thought I would be,” she says. She always loved poetry and fiction, but it never occurred to her that she could do it herself. program at University of California, Berkeley, she left to pursue writing. Wuertz began her career path thinking she’d work in academia, but after starting a Ph.D.
She said history books and articles can describe that big picture, “but in my novel I wanted to show what it was like to have been young in that time when things were changing so rapidly.” Working in Academia? That’s the story that I wanted to tell from an emotional point of view, not necessarily from a historical or political point of view.” “Probably a hundred years of evolution happened in 20 or 30 years. “It was a huge jump in one generation, which is a reality I didn’t understand and I think that’s so interesting from both political and personal points of view,” Wuertz says.
Wuertz is proud to point out that her parents’ generation, born in the 1950s right after the end of the Korean War, is “probably the most dynamic generation to change South Korea from a poor nation to a highly-developed nation” as they entered adulthood. The novel centers on two young women from different class backgrounds who meet a young man who’s also trying to change his life amidst the authoritarian political landscape. Her parents’ recollections inspired her to find books on that time period, but they also helped her with specific details including what they wore in college and what kind of music they liked silly things like how much spinach cost then and the salary differences between a housekeeper, driver and teacher.
“When I understood that, I could explain to them where I was coming from in a more systemic way and not such a personal way.” “This is as normal and natural to them as my ideas of personal freedom and self-determination are to me, so it’s just a completely different world view,” she says. Wuertz realized that they weren’t trying to be antagonistic toward her.
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