Sep 04 2015
Yesterday, Patrick Ness launched a fundraising page for Save the Children, with the money going "to help with the Syrian refugee crisis because I can no longer stand to just tweet about it." He offered to match GBP100,000 in donations (about US$150,000). Within hours, readers had donated GBP40,000 (about $60,935), which was matched by GBP10,000 donations from Ness and fellow authors John Green, Derek Landy and Jojo Moyes. At the time of writing the sum raised is GBP260,000 (almost $400,000) and rising, with many additional authors pitching in to match donations.
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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