Coffee House Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/coffee-house-press/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:54:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Coffee House Press Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/coffee-house-press/ 32 32 38398750 Mr. and Mrs. Doctor https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/mr-and-mrs-doctor/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/mr-and-mrs-doctor/#comments Wed, 13 May 2015 07:11:40 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3998   Job’s father sends him from their homeland in Nigeria to America to study to become a doctor. Instead of doing so, Job flunks out of college but continues to tell everyone he is still studying. At twenty-four he uses some of the tuition money on a green card marriage thus ensuring he never has […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/mr-and-mrs-doctor/feed/ 2 3998 A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/girl-half-formed-thing/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/girl-half-formed-thing/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:06:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3362   The heart cannot be wrung and wrung. Eimear McBride brings her main character to life with prose so fractured that A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing reads a bit like Clockwork Orange. There is no made-up language, but McBride uses a combination of Magnetic Poetry and Yahtzee to throw out words in random order […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/girl-half-formed-thing/feed/ 12 3362 How to Build a Girl https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/how-to-build-girl/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/how-to-build-girl/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:29:40 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3267 I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast-moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of me. I’m gonna begat myself. Caitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl is the hell-bent lovechild of Angela’s Ashes and Almost Famous—overlarge, impoverished family with a drunken […]

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