In Piedmont, North Carolina in the 1990s two women are faced with raising young children on their own. Jade and her son Gee are Black while Lacey May and her three daughters are White. Both are living on the same edge of desperation, but in What’s Mine and Yours each responds to her circumstances in very different ways. Ways that come to clash a decade later, when despite it ... Read More...
One to Watch: A Novel
I’m going for a change of pace this week. At the beginning of the month my reading was mostly diverse and a bit dark so I needed to change it up a bit. Thankfully, One to Watch and the book I’ll review on Wednesday were both the kind of reading you pick up and don’t want to put down. Bea Schumacher is a successful plus-size fashion blogger and fan of the reality show ... Read More...
The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan
From the nucleus of one family, The Arsonists’ City is a novel that spins out between decades and countries. Idris and Mazna met in the 1970s. He lived in Beirut and was studying to be a doctor and she was a young actress living with her family in Damascus. Decades later they are settled in America with three grown children. The death of Idris’s father means he’s inherited the ... Read More...
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir
Imagine being 22 years old, leaving home to live in Paris and work at a dream job, and meeting a great guy. Sounds like the beginning of a traditional chick-lit novel, right? But what if, despite all the excitement, physical problems you’d written off to stress weren’t getting better, they were getting worse? In this way, Suleika’s Jaouad’s memoir, Between Two Kingdoms: A ... Read More...
The Northern Reach: A Novel
Another Monday and I’m back with a second 5-star fabulous book. W. S. Winslow’s debut novel, The Northern Reach, is a compact novel, set on the northern coast of Maine in the kind of small towns that depend on summer vacationers and fishing for their survival. What begins with one mother mired in grief over a son lost at sea ebbs and flows over three generations of families as ... Read More...
All Girls: A Novel by Emily Layden
Sometimes a book’s title is all you need to know about the book. This is clearly the case in Emily Layden’s debut novel, All Girls. Set at the Atwater School, a prestigious girls’ boarding school in New England, the novel has a provocative beginning. As girls and their families drive to the school for the start of fall semester they see hundreds of yard signs along the way ... Read More...
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