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The Leavers by Lisa Ko

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

by Ashley McCall | Aug 4, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, General Fiction

When Lisa Ko’s debut novel The Leavers opens, we’re introduced to Deming Guo, a young Chinese immigrant (technically born in the U.S. but raised for a handful of years by his grandfather in rural China) living in New York City with his mother, Polly. They live with...
Trout Run by Paul Dage

Trout Run by Paul Dage

by Ashley McCall | May 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, NW Setting, Portland Publishers, Sponsored

Trout Run, the second novel in Paul Dage’s Eddy Trout trilogy, continues his main character’s story where the first novel, Trout Kill, left off. Without spoiling too much of the plot of that novel, it centers around a man, Eddy Trout, age 47. He lives in Milo, Oregon...
The Secret Life of Anna Blanc by Jennifer Kincheloe

The Secret Life of Anna Blanc by Jennifer Kincheloe

by Ashley McCall | Dec 27, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Romance

Some people just stumble into their desires. Anna Blanc, the eponymous main character of Jennifer Kincheloe’s novel, The Secret Life of Anna Blanc, is a bored rich girl, afforded all of life’s niceties but chafing under her father’s thumb, stifled by...
The Scribe by Matthew Guinn

The Scribe by Matthew Guinn

by Ashley McCall | Dec 12, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller

It’s 1881. The International Cotton Exposition is coming to Atlanta. But across the city, leading black entrepreneurs are being brutally murdered, the letter M inscribed on their mutilated bodies. Former Atlanta police officer Thomas Canby, disgraced and relegated to...
The Trespasser by Tana French

The Trespasser by Tana French

by Ashley McCall | Nov 21, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Viking Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series of novels, each told in the voice of a...
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