Honestly, one of the greatest books I have ever read, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, is nothing less than extraordinary. I could not help but write a review! Homegoing is a historical fiction narrative that follows two families in Ghana and the United States over 300 years. The novel traces several generations from the late 18th…
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Did you know that there is an island called Jeju in South Korea, where women survived as sea divers in the mid-20th century and sustained their families with seafood? Called the haenyeo, these women free-dived into the Sea of Japan wearing cotton suits and masks to grab abalone, squid, and octopus. They held their breath…
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No one will forget the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Now imagine facing an even deadlier disease without modern medicine. The plague, or Black Death, killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353, wiping out nearly 60 percent of Europe’s population in its Bubonic,…
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