Rina Business_Gift_Guide Should Mina trust her father—or

Should Mina trust her father—or listen to her own instincts

Beloved author-illustrator Rosemary Wells tells the story of a young cat who goes to bed worrying about what might happen on the first day of school—only to be pleasantly surprised in this engaging and reassuring picture book

when he goes to school

the sun pierces through a sword-shaped crevice in a boulder

and when we sacrifice morals for progress

Rina Business_Gift_Guide Should Mina trust her father—orRina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an empty and futile landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hardedged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean