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Page Turners
Read any good books lately? Share your book recommendations with other Brunonians by sending e-mail to Events@brown.edu. Be sure to include your name, your title and department, the name of the book and author, and your brief critique. This week's page turners are:
 Ross Cheit (left), associate professor, political science and public policy
• "When We Were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro: "An elegantly written page-turner that combines the suspense of a mystery with Ishiguro's incomparable observations about the search for meaning in life."
Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, visiting lecturer, English
• "Out of Place" by Edward Said: "This book is a great primer for anyone interested in what the word 'postcolonialism' means. Edward Said is a guru of this movement, and after reading this memoir of his boyhood one gets a clue as to why. His poignant book evokes a lost world of Jerusalem and Cairo. It also explains his growing awareness of politics in culture as he slowly realizes what is being taken from him: his identity as a Palestinian through loss of 'place.'"
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