When Rowan and her fiancé Seth stall out in their dreams of being a screenwriter (her) and a novelist (him) they decide to take a break from the dreary reality of moving back home to Michigan and rent a rustic cabin in the Adirondacks for a month. This simple decision, made to save money, leads to the discoveries that lie at the heart of What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown. The ... Read More...
A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
We live so much of our lives without telling anyone. Apparently, this is going to be an emotion drenched week of reviews. When A Quiet Life opens, a Pennsylvania suburb is locked in the throes of winter, while three of its residents are just as frozen in their grief. Chuck is a man in his early 70s whose beloved wife died suddenly from cancer, Ella’s young daughter is missing, ... Read More...
In Memoriam: A Novel
I haven’t read a war book in quite a while as I burned out on WWII after reading so many outstanding novels on the subject. But a friend recommended In Memoriam and while I was resistant at first my 2024 reading has been tepid at best so I decided to give it a chance. And just like that, my heart was unexpectedly torn by this work of horror and tenderness, set amidst WWI, a ... Read More...
The Future by Naomi Alderman
The road to ruin is paved with certainty. The end of the world is only ever hastened by those who think they will be able to protect their own from the coming storm. From holiday horror to ending the year with dystopian apocalyptic science fiction? Why not! I decided to lean into everything that gives me anxiety. Namely, AI, social media, the obscene wealth hoarded and ... Read More...
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Salahudin and Noor have been best friends since the first grade when Sal was the only person who could communicate with Noor, newly arrived from Pakistan. This friendship, set in a small California town, is the cornerstone of All My Rage, a powerful novel about coming-of-age in a place where you’re always the outsider. When the novel begins the two 16-year-old friends aren’t ... Read More...
Those We Thought We Knew
The residents of Jackson, a quiet county in the North Carolina mountains, are happy believing racism is largely in their past. Until that is, reality intervenes in David Joy’s new novel, Those We Thought We Knew. Joy uses the perspectives of three local characters: two white law enforcement officers and one Black woman to strip the veneer from a place and people who thought ... Read More...
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