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When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

April 26, 2013

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

  Those of us left behind dug in. Through the fall, through the winter, it seemed we lived on the border of a real life lived elsewhere. It seemed that the absence was ours somehow, not ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, debut, mystery, Riverhead Books

Tomorrow There will be Apricots

April 15, 2013

Tomorrow there will be apricots

Tomorrow there will be Apricots is a portrait in sadness, the kind inflicted by others and the kind brought on by self. Lorca is a 14-year-old girl who is trying to gain the attention of her distant ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, contemporary life, debut, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Y: A Novel by Marjorie Celona

January 16, 2013

Y: A Novel

In my head, late at night, I draft letters to my mother and my father. I say everything I want to say, everything that needs to be said. In my head I am so eloquent.  Abandoned on the steps of a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, contemporary life, debut, Free Press

Me and Mr. Booker

January 11, 2013

Me and Mr. Booker

Me and Mr. Booker is sixteen-year-old Martha’s story of her affair with a married man. It’s Lolita from Lolita’s perspective which is physically less disconcerting but still likely to evoke moral ... Read More...

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The Chocolate Money

September 16, 2012

Call me twisted but when a book opens with a wealthy woman complaining that no one understood her nude-themed Christmas card, I’m going to laugh. And have high hopes that something snarky and fun is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Chicago, coming-of-age, debut, Mariner Books, wealth

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