annawiener asked: Hi Sam! Any gift ideas for someone whose 2011 favorites included Stone Arabia, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, The Family Fang, and A Good Hard Look? Bonus points for books set somewhere other than New York City. Also, this someone may or may not be my mother, so I'm going to preemptively veto House of Holes. Many many thanks. xA

Hmmmmm. If your mom is the type of mom who watches Friday Night Lights, then she’d like The Art of Fielding, I’m sure. But you probably knew that.

I haven’t read but I’m intrigued by Salvage the Bones, which takes place in Mississippi. Also I’ve heard nothing but good things about Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox. 

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