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The Arrangement: A Novel by Sarah Dunn

March 29, 2017

arrangement

  How to describe Sarah Dunn’s new novel The Arrangement? All that is in my head is the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Elaine decide to break the standards of friends and become friends-with-benefits. They are oh-so-careful with rules and boundaries and are certain they have cracked the code for getting to have sex without becoming involved. Dunn goes one step further ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, humor, Little Brown and Company, marriage, midlife, New York City

Edgar & Lucy: A Novel

March 27, 2017

edgar

  Having a life meant having a story. This is one of the first thoughts we hear from eight-year-old Edgar in Victor Lodato’s novel, Edgar & Lucy. It’s soon followed by the knowledge that the only way to know the story of when you were a baby is for someone else to tell it to you. And that’s Edgar’s biggest problem—neither his mother Lucy or his grandmother ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: childhood, contemporary life, literary, St. Martin's Press

The Fall of Lisa Bellow

March 24, 2017

fall

  Lisa Bellow is blonde, pretty and popular—everything every young girl wants to be in middle school. Unfortunately, she is also well on her way to being a complete bitch. Her popularity is a weapon she wields against all the other less self-assured girls in the 8h grade, including Meredith Oliver. So, when Lisa is abducted it breaks open a jar of conflicting emotions in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, mystery, Simon & Schuster

The Lucky Ones: A Novel

March 20, 2017

lucky ones

  Covering a span from the early 1990s to present day, The Lucky Ones is a novel about Colombia that is as densely dark as that country’s rainforests. Like those forests the novel is home to a wide array of creatures ranging from the innocent to the dangerous; those that hide in the underbrush and those that can adapt quickly to the changing landscape. Who the lucky ones ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, debut, literary, Random House, social issues, South America

The Book of Unknown Americans

March 6, 2017

unknown americans

  We’re the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they’ve been told they’re supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize we’re not that bad, maybe even we’re a lot like them. And who would they hate then?  When their daughter, Maribel, suffers a traumatic brain injury that ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: American life, book clubs, contemporary life, cultural, family, Knopf, social issues

Mr. Splitfoot: A Novel

February 22, 2017

splitfoot

  A wild ride of a novel, Mr. Splitfoot, is of that class of fiction so creative it can hardly be categorized. This is a positive and a negative because it’s subjective enough that a reader will either be highly entertained or completely turned off. Somehow, I fell into both groups. I got the book in 2016 before its release and was unable to make it through more than 10 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, family, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, mystery, social issues

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