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I’m Glad My Mom Died

January 25, 2023

I'm glad

How to review a memoir with a title so jarring I felt bad for even looking at it? Especially as my mother has always been one of the biggest supporters of my writing and reads every review (Hi, Mom, I ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, debut, Hollywood, memoir, pop culture

Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas

January 18, 2023

ghost season

Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas opens with a charred corpse being found near a humanitarian aid compound that sits in a remote village on the border between north and South Sudan. The body’s discovery is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, debut, literary, Middle East

The Cloisters: A Novel

November 16, 2022

cloisters

The Cloisters by Katy Hays has a catnip premise for readers like me: A studious young woman graduates from college and moves to the big city to get away from her sad, small-town life. In this case the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, new adult, New York City

American Fever: A Novel

September 21, 2022

fever

  Stereotypes happen when you don’t understand the thing itself, and so you interpret it. This is not an account of how America was. It’s an account of who I was. Like many normal teenagers ... Read More...

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

NSFW: A Novel

September 9, 2022

nsfw

I recently read NSFW a debut from Isabel Kaplan and I’m fairly certain my visceral reaction to the novel is a response becoming more and more common to me and to many of the women I know given recent ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, new adult, social issues, women

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