{"id":2667,"date":"2016-01-28T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:45:04","slug":"dee-deferranti-abrahamse-2015-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/dee-deferranti-abrahamse-2015-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dee DeFerranti Abrahamse 2015 Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Dee&#8217;s 2015 holiday letter: \u00a0We\u2019re still reading \u2013 some books I\u00a0liked this year: Kate Atkinson, <em>A God in Ruins<\/em>; Angela Fluornoy, <em>The Turner House<\/em>, Eleanor Morse, <em>White Dog Fell From the Sky<\/em>; Jill Leovy, <em>Ghettoside<\/em>; Ta-Nehisi Coates, <em>Between the World and Me<\/em>; Elizabeth Kolbert, <em>The Sixth Extinction<\/em>; and, in South Africa, finally read Mandela\u2019s <em>A Long Walk to Freedom<\/em>. Allan discovered Emma Hooper\u2019s novel <em>Etta and Otto and Russell and James<\/em>, a quirky but short novel that has to be read rather than explained, and after enjoying Louise Erdrich novel <em>A Round House<\/em>, read several more: <em>The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse<\/em>, <em>The Master Butchers Singing Club, <\/em>and <em>The Painted Drum.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Dee&#8217;s 2015 holiday letter: \u00a0We\u2019re still reading \u2013 some books I\u00a0liked this year: Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins; Angela Fluornoy, The Turner House, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky; Jill Leovy, Ghettoside; Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/dee-deferranti-abrahamse-2015-recommendations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[25058,21557],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads","tag-book","tag-novel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}