What a pleasure to be able to start the week with a review for one of the most unusual novels I’ve read in a while. Not so much for its premise, but its backstory. The book is Aug 9- Fog and the author Kathryn Scanlan, who found a beat-up, mildewed, crumbling diary at an estate sale, took it home with her and forgot about it for 15 years. Until the day she started thumbing ... Read More...
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
In the near future two events occur that add new possibilities for human survival. One is an acceleration process that allows spacecraft to travel at up to 30 million mph, a speed previously unimagined, but that will open up galaxy exploration beyond science’s wildest dreams. The other is closer to home—an unmapped vent in the Atlantic Ocean that appears to be far deeper than ... Read More...
James by Percival Everett
I remember almost nothing about the plot of Huckleberry Finn, except it involved a young boy and a slave running away to save their lives and entailed rafting on the Mississippi river. As a Black man author Percival Everett remembered the tale all too well and decided this American ‘classic’ needed to be rewritten. Instead of Huck, Everett lets the enslaved Jim tell their ... Read More...
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen is back (yes!) with her new novel, After Annie, a heartfelt exploration of the internal campaign grief wages on the individual members of one family. After 37-year-old Annie Brown dies while preparing dinner her husband, daughter, and her best friend slog through the next year trying to reassemble their lives without the glue that was Annie. After Annie is not a ... Read More...
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
In 1979 a serial killer in Atlanta began targeting Black children. This disturbing truth is the premise for Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones. A painfully powerful novel it chronicles the lives of three 10-year-olds living in the neighborhoods where children were vanishing. For each, the disappearances and murders will have an impact on their lives, but in very different ways. I ... Read More...
Mercury by Amy Jo Burns
Marley’s had a nomadic life with her mother so when they pull into the small town of Mercury, Pennsylvania she’s hoping this is a place where they’ll stay awhile. In her first afternoon of exploring the town, she finds herself at a high school baseball game. As the game’s end two teens start fighting, ending up rolling on the ground. This is Marley’s introduction to the Joseph ... Read More...
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