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Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. Watching Bird make her way through a world filled with dangers-biological, political, personal-and find not just love, but also herself, makes for rewarding reading. Simone Missick narrates in a low, serious tone that befits this thriller in which a deadly flu pandemic is spreading across the globe in the near futu. Johnson (The Summer Prince) blends high school drama, cloak-and-dagger intrigue, race and class inequities, coming of age, and a passionate love story, blending these disparate elements into a narrative that both requires and repays attention. That’s where Johnson’s story starts, with Emily under government observation, wondering whom to trust, and trying to figure out whether she’s ready to quit being good-girl Emily and become independent Bird. But a flu pandemic, which may be bioterrorism, means drones, tanks, quarantines, and more work for Emily’s parents-government scientists so busy that they don’t come home when Emily ends up in the hospital. Emily Bird knows what she’s supposed to do: graduate from her posh Washington, D.C., prep school attend an Ivy League school hold onto her appropriate boyfriend keep her too-kinky hair chemically tamed and assume her place among the elite. Which brings up my main problem with this collection: there simply isn't enough of them! I found that once I was really getting into each of these poets, the well here ran dry. It's a nice sampling of these two poets output, aided by Coopers notes and introduction, which helps even those who know next to nothing about Chinese poetry - myself included - get into these poems. On the whole, this is an interesting collection. And the first half of this book is a lengthy introduction by Cooper, covering not only the basics of these two poets, but is a good primer for Chinese poetry as a whole, ranging from early works like Songs of the South to poets of the T'ang dynasty. It collects a healthy sampling of the two poets, but it's only a sampling: each poet is represented by about 50 pages worth of poems, with most of that space taken up with Arthur Cooper's voluminous annotations. Penguin's compilation of the poetry of Li Po and Tu Fu isn't quite what it appears at first. The first is a memoir and the second a volume of history, but both examine the plight of poor and working-class whites in America. Vance and White Trash: the Secret 400-Year History of Poverty in America by Nancy Isenberg. Last year’s notable “twin books” were Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. You may have also heard of the concept of “twin movies,” where two remarkably similar movies are released around the same time– Armageddon and Deep Impact, Dante’s Peak and Volcano, The Prestige and The Illusionist. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the polio vaccine, developed in Pittsburgh by Jonas Salk and in Ohio by Albert Sabin in the mid-50s. You may have heard of the theory of multiple discovery, when two independent scientists make the same discovery at nearly the same time. |