

This Place Is Still Beautiful
Author: XiXi Tian
Narrator: Katharine Chin, Cindy Kay
Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 06/07/2022
Author: XiXi Tian
Narrator: Katharine Chin, Cindy Kay
Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 06/07/2022
XiXi Tian was born in China and immigrated to the United States when she was a year old. She grew up in central Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in history, and then attended Harvard Law School. She is a writer, lawyer, avid reader, and lifelong Midwesterner no matter where she lives. Her debut novel, This Place Is Still Beautiful, was an Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick and received five starred reviews. You can visit her online at xixiwrites.com.
for such a heavy and serious topic, this is one of the prettiest debuts ive read in a while. XTs writing is so, so lovely. while the focus of the story is how a family handles a horrible act of hatred, i found the complicated relationship between the two sisters the most compelling aspect of the boo......more
10/5 stars?? Is that an option, because this is probably the best book I've ever read because everything felt like life turned into words, like a world that was built and characters who were real all coming together to break my heart. And I don't know what to do with that right now so I'm going to r......more
A story of two estranged sisters who are brought together after a hate crime is committed in their home. Upon reading the premise, I expected something powerful and moving. In my case, it wasn’t much of those. Told in alternating POVs of the two sisters, Margaret and Annalie, through them we see two......more
3 / 5 🌟 “i found out being lonely is different than being alone. loneliness, it turns out, isn't quite as easy to escape." tws: gaslighting, racism, hate crimes, misogyny, invalidation of mixed people......more
Deeply moving and powerful, this is a gorgeously written story told through the perspectives of two sisters, each with their own unique and strong voice, and the different ways in which they deal/cope with the aftermath of their family being the target of a racially motivated hate crime. I adored bo......more