I remember almost nothing about the plot of Huckleberry Finn, except it involved a young boy and a slave running away to save their lives and entailed rafting on the Mississippi river. As a Black man author Percival Everett remembered the tale all too well and decided this American ‘classic’ needed to be rewritten. Instead of Huck, Everett lets the enslaved Jim tell their ... Read More...
Pineapple Street
The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not anything his sisters Georgina and Darley have ever given thought to. Money or more importantly the lack of money is not a concept understood in Jenny Jackson’s debut, Pineapple ... Read More...
The Things We Didn’t Know
When Andrea is 9-years-old she finds herself and her little brother Pablo uprooted from their home in Woronoco, Massachusetts and left in a small Puerto Rican village with an aunt they’ve never met. All because their mother hates living in their small 1950s factory town in America and is lonely. This unsettling turn of events is just the beginning of Andrea’s voyage from ... Read More...
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
And it’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand. In the midst of the 1864 Colorado Sand Creek massacre of the Cheyenne a Native boy is able to escape. After years of wandering, he finds himself in Nevada where he’s told he can go to a mission for food and shelter. He does and is promptly chained and sent to a prison in Florida. It’s only years after his ... Read More...
The Woman on the Ledge
After a woman is found dead on the pavement in front of a London highrise office building, Tate Kinsella is brought in for questioning on suspicion of murder. She tells the police that she had met the as-yet unidentified woman on the building’s rooftop terrace and that the woman was going to kill herself by jumping until Tate had talked her out of it. Either the woman had gone ... Read More...
February Reading Wrap-Up
February ended up being an interesting month for my reading. Interesting in that none of the usual rules applied and I became impatient, starting and stopping books with all the crankiness of a fractious toddler needing a nap. This week I took an adult version of a nap and spent three days in a small cottage on the southern coast of Washington. Three days of high winds and ... Read More...
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