Happy Holidays from the DiMenna-Nyselius Library!
At the end of the year, we asked all our staff here at the Library to tell us ONE book that they loved in 2019- here are their picks, (with blurbs taken from GoodReads):
Robert Hoyt (Director of Library Systems): The Gene, An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. "Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices."
Mat Blaine (Research & Outreach Librarian): On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong. "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born
