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  • Ligaya Mishan edits The New Yorker’s book blog and writes restaurant and book reviews for the magazine. She is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. She was born on Sunset Boulevard and grew up in Honolulu; has been a shoe model, a tutor at the Supreme Soviet, and an advertising writer; and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the composer Ahrin Mishan, and their daughter, Calla.

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Book reviews: 2000

Memories of a Pure Spring, by Duong Thu Huong, translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong (Hyperion East)
The New Yorker, January 31, 2000

On Parole, by Akira Yoshimura, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (Harcourt)
The New Yorker, March 27, 2000

The Hunter, by Julia Leigh (Four Walls Eight Windows)
The New Yorker, September 25, 2000

A Whale Hunt, by Robert Sullivan (Scribner)
The New Yorker, November 13, 2000

Off Keck Road, by Mona Simpson (Knopf)
The New Yorker, December 4, 2000

The Journey Home, by Olaf Olafsson (Pantheon)
The New Yorker, December 25, 2000 & January 1, 2001

Jun 09, 2006 |

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