With The Elements, John Boyne delivers another masterfully crafted story, rich with complexity and nuance—just like life itself. Told in four separate yet interconnected narratives, […] Read More
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I was just a few pages into Lee Martin’s The Evening Shades when I felt its similarities to Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night. And […] Read More
I’ll Come to You by Rebecca Kauffman takes readers through a year in the life of one family —spanning from post Christmas 1994 to Christmas […] Read More
In Susan Rieger’s recent novel, Like Mother, Like Mother, three generations of women grapple with what it means to be a woman: wife, mother, and […] Read More
There are some authors whose work you can’t help but return to, and for me, Elizabeth Strout is one of them. Her newest novel, Tell […] Read More
Death at the Sign of the Rook is Kate Atkinson’s sixth installment of her Jackson Brodie series and fans of her work will love it. […] Read More
While technically Day by Michael Cunningham will fall into the category of COVID pandemic fiction, this one was beautifully and uniquely constructed—three days in three years, stretching from 2019 to 2021. The same day on the calendar, so each is a year apart.
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski is a beautifully written story set in a small Massachusetts town. It involves the lives of mothers, daughters, […] Read More
The Pole by J. M. Coetzee is at once moody and mysterious – full of tension. This novella centers around Beatriz and Wittold. She’s a […] Read More
Last week when I was wrapping up my review of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, I saw that he was going to be […] Read More