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Metropolis: A Novel

June 27, 2022

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A storage warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts hardly seems the place to play out a multi-layered suspense novel, but when Metropolis opens a body is found at the bottom of the building’s elevator ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, mystery

Honor: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

January 10, 2022

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When Smita arrives in Mumbai she thinks she’s there to help a good friend undergoing surgery. Otherwise, even as a global journalist, she has never returned to the country her family left when she was ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, India, women

My 8 Best Books of 2021

December 27, 2021

  Best is a big word, especially these days when words that have been a part of the lexicon for lifetimes feel as if they’re losing their meaning. The first that comes to mind is “normal”. There ... Read More...

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Nowhere Girl: A Memoir

July 8, 2021

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I’m seldom at a loss for words, but I recently finished a memoir that left me…???...!!! Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond follows Diamond from when she is a small child to when she is 30. In that time, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, debut, memoir, vacation reading

The Fortunate Ones: A Novel

January 13, 2021

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Things are starting to turn around in Charlie Boykin’s life. The child of a single mother who works as a cocktail waitress, he’s been one of the only white boys at his school and in their Nashville ... Read More...

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