by Site Owner | Apr 14, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
This Debut Novel Shines By Lydia Netzer St. Martin’s Press, $24.99, 312 pages Sunny and Maxon have known each other since they were children. They were different. Maxon is a scientist who looks at the world differently from most people. Sunny was...
by michaeld | Apr 9, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Lola, California By Edie Meidav Picador Books, $17.00, 433 pages Lola, California is a study in human interaction and just how complicated and dysfunctional it can be. The book opens with Vic Mahler, ’70s philosophy professor with a cult following,...
by Site Owner | Sep 4, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Vaddey Ratner Simon & Schuster, $25.00, 334 pages Raami is seven years old when the Khmer Rouge come pounding at the gate. Her family must leave immediately. The war is over; the revolution has begun. So Raami, her baby sister, parents, aunt and Grandmother...
by Site Owner | Aug 24, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Ceri Radford Viking, $25.95, 273 pages A modern epistolary novel in the form of a blog, A Surrey State of Affairs chronicles the life of Constance Harding, wife, mother, bell-ringer. She is, for the most part, content. Of course she’d like it if her slovenly...
