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A Different Viewpoint: Cleanness

February 24, 2020

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It’s very likely that at some point in our lives we’ve all experienced feelings of loneliness and alienation, but it is unlikely that we’ve been made to feel unnatural or that we have no right to even ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, cultural, Farrar Straus Giroux, literary

The Gimmicks: A Novel

January 22, 2020

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I didn’t plan this, but I’m back today with another unusual book (Monday's review). The Gimmicks is about two teenage brothers in Armenia in the 1970s. One is a giant, standing over 6’6” tall, while ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, debut, Harper, historical fiction, literary

A Door in the Earth

September 20, 2019

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Parveen is like most young women her age—graduating college, but not sure what she wants to do with her degree in medical anthropology. Until she reads a memoir, written by a man who goes to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, cultural, literary, Little Brown and Company, Middle East, war

If You Want to Make God Laugh: A Novel

July 22, 2019

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Delilah hasn’t been home in forty years, but when she arrives on her family’s farm in South Africa it’s to find her sister Ruth drunk on the couch and getting ready to sell the place. The sisters are ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, book clubs, cultural, literary, Putnam, racism, South Africa, women

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

May 22, 2019

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Petrona used to live on a farm in Colombia, with her nine brothers and her sister. Then the paramilitary showed up, burned down their house and their fields, and took her father and her three oldest ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, South America

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