CED in 3: Delilah D. Pacheco

Summary

Each week, we ask a member of the college grad student community to share 3 picks related to one of their passions.

Each week, we ask a member of the college grad student community to share 3 picks related to one of their passions. This week, Delilah D. Pacheco, a CITE doctoral student, shares 3 books that remind of life beyond academic pursuits:

Lately, as the semester progressed, I found myself gravitating to books and poems that reminded me of life beyond academic pursuits. Here are some recommendations: 

  1. The God of Small Things by Arundathi Roy: This 1997 Booker Prize winner is a grand tale of family, childhoods, and the cost of love and loss. Set in Kerela, in southern India, this book is a great introduction to the best of Indian literature. 
  2. Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye: Nye is considered to be one of the leading poets of the American Southwest. Her poems weave in the everyday and the forgotten into topics of rich cultural awareness. 
  3. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: An intergenerational epic that begins in early 1900s Korea, when Sunja escapes her hometown and the father of her child and marries a sickly minister on his way to Japan. A tale that traverses busy cities and universities to move into the seedy underbelly of the underworld, Lee writes complex and passionate characters simply trying to survive — whatever the cost.