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Another brutal but necessary book about a genocide happening in front of our faces. At first glance, the title might suggest a future reckoning, but Omar El Akkad is insistent on demonstrating what is happening to the world now. It will be reckoned with in the future, but that does not lessen the impact today, on Gaza and on those who are allowing it to happen.

"It is difficult to live in [the U.S.] in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be." (117)

A novel about climate change and literary translation that is funny and has plenty for the language nerds. Croft is a translator, so the layers of reference and humor are thick.

An interesting book about the messed up politics surrounding gender, food, and bodies in Japan (which in many ways mirror that same kind of messed up politics in the U.S.). The book offers an interesting answer to some of those problems by way of kinship as the protagonist arrives at a unique way of thinking about home, domesticity, friendship, family, and kin.

There might be no escape from the aforementioned mentioned messed up politics, but this book suggests that there might be different ways of inhabiting them.