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A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar

June 15, 2020

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Jivan is a young woman living with her parents in a slum in India. She is a sales clerk at a nice clothing store. Everyone around her is shocked then when she is arrested for the bombing of a commuter ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, cultural, debut, India, literary

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

June 10, 2020

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Where to begin with Brit Bennett’s new novel The Vanishing Half? Ostensibly it’s the story of identical twins Stella and Desiree who grow up in Mallard, a small, poor community in the Deep South, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, book clubs, cultural, historical fiction, literary

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

June 8, 2020

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At 22 Ava decides the best way to have a happy life is to move as far from Dublin as possible. She chooses Hong Kong where she is hired by a private elementary school to teach English grammar. She ... Read More...

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Rodham: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

May 20, 2020

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Seldom has there been a public figure more scrutinized, disparaged, and talked about than Hillary Rodham Clinton. You might think it’s the price to be paid for entering politics, but the level of ... Read More...

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Little Family by Ishmael Beah

May 18, 2020

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In an abandoned field hidden by a maze of thickets, trees, and shrubs is a downed airplane. When it crashed is unknown, but in this unnamed African country it has become home for four young people and ... Read More...

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