In Bikole: Eight Modern Stories About Life in a West African Village

Short stories revealing various aspects of life among the Serers in the West African village of Bikole.

In Bikole: Eight modern stories about life in a West African village

Gilroy, Tom

Knopf: distributed by Random House

Short stories revealing various aspects of life among the Serers in the West African village of Bikole.

Children's Books

Random Library

This is the book based on the film starring Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber. This novelization of the screenplay by Tom Gilroy is the masterful story of one year in the lives of two men who both work as Connecticut parks workers. The best friendships come out of nowhere. Buy the book. See the movie.

Spring Forward

Water Row Press]

The Haiku Year exists because seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. The finished product is a document of a year’s worth of moments filled with joy, sorrow and unexpected beauty. The book y creates the sense that present moments do not just disappear and provides a visceral understanding of how these moments fit into the context of the rest of our lives. The short verses in Haiku Year stab and elate. They hint at both the transcendence and mediocrity of everyday life. The power of Michael Stipe’s southern, twilight drenched lyrics from early REM albums is present in the volume. Douglas A. Martin’s sparse yet descriptive prose gleams throughout. The thoughtful storytelling of Grant Lee Phillips is pared down to the simplest words to describe an instance. The Haiku Year is about the appreciation of small moments of beauty, ultimately adding up to the appreciation and respect not only for our individual lives but for all the lives that intersect with ours. The Haiku Year effortlessly urges readers to enjoy details and to let spare moments pierce through the numbness of everyday routine.

The Haiku Year

Literature & Fiction

Martin, Douglas

Stipe, Michael

Phillips, Grant Lee

History & Criticism

Soft Skull

Out of Season

Humor & Satire

BooxAi

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