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  Alexandra Chang Ecco, 2023 (Paperback edition) 256 pages Disclosure: This review is based on a close reading of the short‑story collection and publicly available bibliographic information. It assesses narrative range and form, thematic concerns around migration and technology, characterization, stylistic approach, and the collection’s place in contemporary American literary fiction.   Overview Alexandra Chang’s Tomb Sweeping is a compact, emotionally resonant collection that interrogates the ties that bind—between generations, immigrants and their adopted homes, strangers, and versions of the self. Across stories set in the United States and Asia, Chang captures ordinary lives in moments of rupture and revelation: grocery aisles and recycling routes, clinics and cramped gambling dens, dating apps and family altars. The collection balances wry observation with tenderness and moral complexity, asking how loyalty, memory, and technology reshape human connection in the present ...

  Science at the Doorstep to God : Where Empirical Inquiry Meets Faith Title: Science at the Doorstep to God: Science and Reason in Support of God, the Soul, and Life after Death Author: Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. Genre: Science / religion / Catholic apologetics Publication year: 2023 Spoiler note: Spoiler-free Personal rating:  3 stars Science and religion are often presented as rival explanations of reality. In that familiar story, science advances by replacing supernatural beliefs with natural explanations, while faith retreats into the shrinking territory that evidence has not yet reached. Father Robert Spitzer rejects this conflict narrative. In Science at the Doorstep to God , he argues that scientific discoveries and philosophical reasoning do not eliminate the possibility of God, the soul, or life after death. Properly understood, they may point toward them. This is an ambitious book. Spitzer draws from cosmology, physics, philosophy, medical research, anthropology,...