When Sara’s mother was 8 months pregnant, she lied to the airlines and flew from Missouri back to Kuwait, determined that her daughter be born in the country of her ancestors. This is just the first of many miles and countries crossed by the indomitable women in Mai Al-Nakib’s sweeping novel, An Unlasting Home. A fitting title for a book populated by women whose lives span ... Read More...
Elektra: A Novel of the House of Atreus
A Greek queen, her daughter, and a princess of Troy are thrown into each other’s lives thanks to the Trojan War. In her new novel, Elektra, Jennifer Saint paints a complex portrait of these women as they shift between being pawns in a patriarchal game of domination and agents of their own lives determined to exact some measure of control over their fates. Deliciously satisfying ... Read More...
Dark Circles: A Novel
It’s been noted how America’s preoccupation with true crime has seen a disturbing uptick since the onset of the pandemic. Especially amongst females. Whether it’s books, podcasts, television, or movies we seem to want more. I admit to being a part of the problem. All of this is the lead-in to the book I’m reviewing today. Dark Circles is by Caite Dolan-Leach and follows a TV ... Read More...
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
A Turkish woman lying murdered in a rubbish bin hardly seems like the appropriate subject for a piercingly tender novel about the damage done to innocence in childhood and the bonds of friendship as family, but 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is a singular work that defies labels. The same is true of the dead woman, Leila, who, at 40 years old, has been a prostitute ... Read More...
April Reading Recap
April, where have you gone? Actually, the month wasn’t the problem is was the last week when the universe decided to shift from neutral to overdrive in my world. A quick update because it does impact the blog. Our move to Ann Arbor was supposed to be for 5 years, but like anything else in the corporate arena, anything can change at any time. So…we’re headed back to Seattle ... Read More...
A Novel Obsession
Given my love of books about books A Novel Obsession seemed an easy choice when I saw it at the library. Naomi is a 20-something aspiring writer. She lives in NYC and works in a bookstore, leaving her time to work on her first novel. Except, her life has been unremarkable, leaving her without the material she needs to create readable fiction or so she believes. When she gets a ... Read More...
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