THE WRONG KIND OF WOMANBOOK REVIEW Sarah McCraw Crow’s novel transports the reader to the 1970’s at a fictional college similar to Dartmouth. The era is turbulent, both culturally and politically, much like America today. The parallels between now and then are uncanny: a sharply divided nation experiencing a tsunami of discord. Some people push […]
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HALFBOOK REVIEW I read Sharon Harrigan’s novel, HALF, in two sittings. It was that good. HALF is a story about identical twins named Artis and Paula, named for Zeus’s twins, Artemis and Apollo. They live with a father who is a monster and a mother who enables him. Told in the first-person plural, Harrigan credibly
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EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN Everyone Brave is Forgivenis a book you should read if you would like to nourish your brain. Just about every sentence is deliciously well written. The novel is set in London and Malta during World War II and addresses the themes of class, race, and the morality of war. Eighteen-year-old Mary,
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A WOMAN IS NO MANBOOK REVIEW “I was born without a voice, one cold overcast day in Brooklyn, New York. No one ever spoke of my condition. I did not know I was mute until years later, when I opened my mouth to ask for what I wanted and realized no one could her me.
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THE STORY OF ARTHUR TRULUVBOOK REVIEW Are you looking for a pleasant summer read? Consider The Story of Arthur Truluvby Elizabeth Berg. Each day, eighty-five-year old Arthur Moses eats his lunch by the graveside of his wife, Nola, who died six months before. As he walks into the cemetery and passes other headstones, he vividly
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VIRGIL WANDERBOOK REVIEW I have the attention span of a fruit fly. Whether in a movie or book, pacing is important to me. When a movie is slow, I’ve been known to hit fast forward, then read the subtitles as I zoom to the end. Virgil Wanderstarts slowly, but I hung in through the first
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THE SILENCE OF BONAVENTURE ARROWBOOK REVIEW The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. The novel is dripping with magical realism and reminded me (in a good way) of Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River, which I also loved. Set in New Orleans
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HOMEGOINGBOOK REVIEW With regard to racial strife in the US, have you ever wondered, “How in the world did we get here?” Written by Yaa Gyasi, the novel, Homegoing, provides one answer. The story traces the lives of two half sisters, Effia and Esi, born in the 1700’s in Ghana. Separated while young, they each
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THE TRESPASSERA BOOK REVIEW I’ve never liked crime novels, crime movies or even dressing up as a criminal on Halloween. However, this past year I’ve started reading Tana French. Last night, I finished The Trespasser. The main character, Detective Antoinette Conway, is a much-disliked member of the Dublin Murder Squad. To be fair, her
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LAB GIRLBOOK REVIEW When someone in my book club chose LAB GIRL for our next discussion, I didn’t rejoice. With what is happening in the world these days, all I want to do in my spare time is eat Snickers bars and watch The Office re-runs. I was wrong. This is a terrific read. LAB
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