we love the sheer chutzpah of lucy ellmann's mammoth mammoth full tome ducks, newburyport.ver encountered, and a worthy echo of jamesjoyce encountered, and a worthy echo of james joyce and ulysses. encountered, and a worthy echo of jamesjoyce and ulysses. these books talk to each other, they talk to books of the past, and i have formed an extraordinary connection that i hope everyone who gets to read all of them will understand and enjoy as much as we have. we love bernardine evaristo's girl, woman, 0ther, giving voice to people who are not always articulated, making the invisible visible. we love chigozie 0bioma's an orchestra of minorities. and that exploration of masculine 80 that also gives us another extraordinary narrator add a vision of what the journey might be like foran of what the journey might be like for an everyman of what the journey might be like for an eve ryman who of what the journey might be like for an everyman who doesn't happen to be the king of if the car. we love the bravura performance of salman rushdie's quichotte, a maximalist compendium of so mu