Preety Sidhu, an intern at Electric Literature, tagged
eight books to make you glad you’re not at the beach, including:
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
Human rights researcher Anya travels to a beach resort in Thailand for Christmas in 2004, hoping to track down a presumed-dead brigade commander who may have participated in the gang rape of a Bosnian woman during the war a decade earlier. She also hopes to reconnect with an old boyfriend teaching English in Bangkok, but the imminent Boxing Day Tsunami threatens to engulf her in another horrific international crisis.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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