The winner of the National Book Critics Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays
She is unmoored in her old city as the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface: her loving but difficult mother
pregnant with twins and unable to travel
The woman he can’t stop thinking about
a closer look reveals its many inherent faults
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Marie Benedict The winner of the NationalThis simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henrys world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While scholarshipping at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and