Jan 10 2020
Merriam-Webster have published a summary of their Words of the Year for the 2010s, with each year's top word and a runner-up (in brackets). As a group, they tell us a lot about what was on our minds during the second decade of the 21st century.
2010: Austerity (Shellacking)
2011: Pragmatic (Vitriol)
2012: Socialism + Capitalism (Malarkey)
2013 Science (Cognitive)
2014: Culture (Insidious)
2015: -ism (Marriage)
2016: Surreal (Bigly)
2017: Feminism (Hurricane)
2018: Justice (Laurel)
2019 They (Impeach)
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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