Tag: book review
Book Review: Come With Me
A 2018 novel teaches me something about my own brain, even though both my life and my writing are quite different. Read More …
Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng’s careful and insightful novel asks, what makes the best family? Read More …
Book Review: Suspicion
Barbara Rogan’s book about a ghost-story writer who moves to a haunted house is full of surprises. Read More …
Book Review: This Must Be the Place
Kate Racculia’s first novel reminds us that quirky doesn’t have to mean lonely. Read More …
Book Review: Footprints in the Dust
A nurse’s memoir brings to life the heartbreaking humanity of the world’s refugees. Read More …
Book Review: Go, Went, Gone
I stumbled onto Go, Went, Gone, a novel by Jenny Erpenbeck (and translated from German by Susan Bernofsky), thanks to a review in the New Yorker, and I’m so glad I did. The unassuming but important story dropped me into Read More …
2017 Holiday Book List
9 reading recommendations for 2018, mostly fiction Read More …
Book Review: The Necklace
Claire McMillan’s second novel delves into family secrets not talked about for so long, they’ve become unknown. Read More …
Book Review: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
A haunting cover opens up to a story told by witty, bantering characters who somehow manage to cope and even thrive through an extremely bleak war. Read More …
Book Review: Of Things Gone Astray
A fable on the streets of present-day London, and every character has lost something they value. Read More …
