Shanthi Sekaram’s second novel, Lucky Boy , is a moving portrait of two families as they struggle to integrate themselves into the structure of modern day society in America. Kavya and Rishi Reddy have been trying to have a child for some [...]
In Aidan Donnelley Rowley’s lush and poignant novel, The Ramblers, two friends find their footing as they settle into the realities and challenges of adulthood. Clio Marsh and Smith Anderson have been friends since college. Now, almost [...]
Karin Slaughter’s heart-racing psychological thriller The Kept Woman follows Will Trent, an officer at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who stumbles upon a crime scene that hits incredibly close to home. When Will learns that the gun found on [...]
This is an incredibly hard review to write. Perhaps because the content, reviewing Homegoing ,by Yaa Gyasi, is unbelievably traumatic – drawn from the very evils of human nature, the heartlessness of slavery, and the devastation of racism [...]
Soulmates, by Jessica Grose, the editor of Lenny – an email newsletter from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner – is a strange, dark thriller/comedy that captures the terrifying feelings of loneliness and distance from loved ones. A sharply [...]
The Sun in Your Eyes by Deborah Shapiro is an aptly named novel. The book reads as though you’ve stepped into the sunlight, feeling warm, contented, only to be blinded by the bright light. Once your eyes have adjusted, you feel disoriented, [...]
The residents of North Bath are not easy to get along with. In Richard Russo’s 1993 novel Nobody’s Fool, he painted a picture of a gritty, down-on-their-luck town in upstate New York, always falling behind the pristine, idyllic rival town [...]
Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon is a historical novel with plenty of heart, but wavers in its execution. An eventful story that includes timely historical moments like the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, Suffrage, the Temperance movement, and the [...]
Fever at Dawn, written by award-winning Hugarian film director Péter Gárdos, is an incredibly moving love story that captures the desperation of human existence; to love, to be loved, and to find happiness in a purposeful life. The story [...]
