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I Saw a Man: A Novel

June 26, 2015

  Michael knew Caroline’s job was dangerous when he married her. As a foreign correspondent her field of interest was the Middle East and while he was also a writer his inspiration came from stillness and hers from motion. They both told the stories of people But where Michael always retreated to his desk to tell his stories Caroline had simply moved on to the next. For ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Middle East, mystery, Nan A. Talese, war

The Household Spirit

June 17, 2015

In The Household Spirit, on a rural road in upstate New York, there sit two identical houses inhabited by two people who are anything but identical. Howie Jeffries is fifty-years old and has lived alone in his house since he and his wife divorced twenty years ago. He is a man with a huge heart wrapped in a persona of extreme shyness and an exterior that is so dour when he does ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: literary, magical realism, Pantheon

China Rich Girlfriend

June 15, 2015

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  As summer appears in all its sweltering glory China Rich Girlfriend is the sumptuous equivalent of a decadent ice cream in book format. The novel is Kevin Kwan’s follow-up to his biting and over-the-top debut Crazy Rich Asians about people with more money than brains and taste. In China Rich Girlfriend, much of the original cast is back, along with some new stereotypes ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, China, contemporary life, cultural, Knopf, satire, wealth

Americanah

June 12, 2015

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Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love when they are teenagers in Lagos, Nigeria. As the time comes for college and moving on they know that they have no wish to stay in Nigeria. Ifemelu gets into a school in the United States and Obinze goes to London. While this may sound straightforward it is anything but in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, Americanah. Instead, Ifemelu and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Knopf, literary, nigeria

Housebreaking: A Novel

May 22, 2015

  Benjamin is forty-four and finds himself kicked out of his house and life by his wife for cheating on her yet again. With nowhere to go he moves in with his father only to discover that his high school crush Audrey just moved in down the street with her husband and their teenage daughter. Because nothing is ever as it seems Benjamin’s not-so-subtle efforts to reconnect ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, debut, Simon & Schuster

Luckiest Girl Alive

May 20, 2015

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Ani FaNelli opens Luckiest Girl Alive by being just that: Perfect hair, perfect body, perfect fiancé and the perfect prima donna attitude to go with it all. Except that underneath, Ani is really TifAni from the far end of Main Line Philadelphia—Main Line being where the upper echelon of Philadelphia society lives and TifAni does not. However, her mother is determined her ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, Simon & Schuster, social issues, suspense, women

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