“I signed up for a movement that was standing still, with explorers who had already arrived, and for a revolution that had given up.” So says Samir Selmanovic in his book It’s Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian. The worst part: he’s talking about Christianity. Here’s a book after my […]
Marcelo in the Real World
This book is unputdownable, mesmerizing, and heartbreaking. Marcelo Sandoval is a seventeen-year-old boy who has an autism-like impairment. He hears music in his head, has an infatuation with religious sayings, and has difficulty reading people’s mannerisms. When his father asks him to enter “the real world” of a law firm for a summer, he reluctantly […]