Mar 26 2020
A team of five people at a small nonprofit in Ann Arbor, Mich., may be all that ensures that next month’s rent and food gets on the table for many of America’s booksellers. As bookstores are forced to furlough or fire many of their frontline booksellers in the face of new coronavirus–related restrictions, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) has emerged as one of the few reliable sources of financial support, raising more than $700,000 to support them since early March.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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