Read this book. Summary from NPR:
Find out “Why Lying Broken in a Pile on Your Bedroom Floor is a Good Idea” by Julie (JC) Peters. It’s okay to be broken. Really, it is. Pop some corn, grab a drink, put your feet up and watch this movie. Chico and Rita directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Synopsis from Wiki, “A gifted songwriter and beautiful singer chase their dreams – and each other – from Havana to New York and Las Vegas. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment.” Amazing research on language, how it affects the way we view the world and how understanding the differences can help us communicate better. “Does Your Language Shape How You Think” by Guy Deutscher. 
Read this book. The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate. Synopsis from NPR, “Mostly content in her job as the sole African-American oceanographic researcher in Woods Hole, Mass., and her marriage to a white fellow scientist, Josie finds she can’t escape her working-class Cleveland family and the addictions that have frayed their connections. As her brother, Tick, struggles to find his footing after losing his job and marriage to drugs, Josie walls herself off from her feelings for her parents — whose divorce stemmed from her father’s alcoholism — and her husband, who loves Josie more than she allows herself to love him. Instead, she falls into an affair with newly arrived researcher Ben, the only other African-American at the lab. Told in Josie’s voice, the story hauntingly explores how the mistakes people make affect everyone around them.” |
