Four Mighty Good Reads

I am not sure if you will like these, but I do -- :)

1. White Mughuls by William Darymple -- true story of a British Resident in Hyderabad, who "went native" and married a Mughul Princess.

2. Twilight over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess -- by Inge Sargent -- Memoir -- written by my friend Mrs Sargent, who was previously married to a Shan prince, who disappeared in 1962 while under detention at a Burmese military base. Univ. of Hawaii Press, paperback.

3. Beasts of No Nation, A Novel, by Uzodinma Iweala. Paperback. This author credits Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, with inspiring his own writing, about a child soldier in an unnamed African country. Winner of LA Times Award for First Fiction, Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and NY Public Library, Young Lions Award.

4. Mark Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter. A Novel. Finalist for NY Public Library Young Lions Award.