I want to wish a happy birthday to the woman who made me the reader I am today: my mother. Thank you for every book you gave me for my birthday and at Easter, for telling the school librarian that you were aware of the books I was reading and she did not need to be involved, all the Nancy Drews and later the first editions of authors I loved, and for letting me stay up way past ... Read More...
ALA and Las Vegas
This past weekend Jed and I traveled to Las Vegas for the largest library conference in the United States. 13,000 librarians at the convention center to look and learn about new technologies, upcoming book releases, and new library programs. I used to attend when I was a librarian and it is one overwhelming mass of activity. This year I went for my blog, to see what are some of ... Read More...
Flying Shoes: A Novel
In spite of the rest of the world’s perception, small southern towns knew how to tolerate difference. There was always an old queer or old lesbian couple, or a Boo Radley in town. You just had to not be from away, and stay within in the unspoken boundaries, and you would have grown up knowing what those were. Mary Byrd Thornton is the beleaguered, snarky protagonist in Lisa ... Read More...
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Lillian Dunkle, the Ice Cream Queen of America, lives in a Park Avenue apartment and has a home in Bedford but began life as Malka Treynovsky in Vishnev, Russia. Susan Jane Gilman’s new novel, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, opens in 1913 when, at age six Malka came to America with her parents and her three sisters and ended up in an Orchard Street tenement. Shortly ... Read More...
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You is the story of the Lee family. They live in Ohio where the father James is a professor and wife Marilyn stays at home and raises Nathan, Lydia, and Hannah. This is the Rockwell painting version but within those broad strokes there is the kernel, the seed that determines how this story will grow. The source is the very love ... Read More...
Mambo in Chinatown
Jean Kwok is back with Mambo in Chinatown, another tenderly crafted novel about the assimilation process for Chinese immigrants in America. This time we’re absorbed into the life of Charlie Wong, a twenty-two year old woman, who, as the novel begins, is working as a dishwasher in a restaurant where her father is the master noodle-maker. When she has the opportunity to take ... Read More...
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