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Jerome's Book Recommendations

These books are available in our WAEC Library or at the Winnipeg Public Library.

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

This novel's narrator is a gang member with Tourette Syndrome who has to solve a murder.

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

Imagine that you're a doctor called into a hospital to treat the victims of a suicide bomber. You discover your wife is one of the victims. Then… the police tell you SHE was the bomber. This should give you a sense of this powerful story about a Palestinian doctor living in Israel .

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

This tale is told from the point of an autistic teenager who tries to figure out who killed his neighbour's dog.

Jerome Greencorn is currently teaching English Comprehensive 40S and English Transactional at WAEC. This is his seventeenth year as a teacher.

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