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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Commitment Issues

Catherine — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:30:33 +0000

When I was young, I got around—reading three or four books at the same time, juggling plots, themes, and characters with abandon, but now I’m a responsible reader—no longer one of those flighty, ‘I’m-going-to-read-around’ kind of gals. Or so I thought, but the last two months have found me playing fast and loose with […]

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Girl at War: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:39:52 +0000

Ana is from Croatia but now lives in America and attends college in New York. Despite having been in the U.S for a decade she suddenly finds herself overcome by memories of her life in Croatia in 1991—the beginning of the Yugoslavian civil war. These memories increase in intensity until she can no longer sleep […]

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The First Rule of Swimming

Catherine — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:38:56 +0000

It did not help that on Rosmarina there was no such thing as privacy, one house so near to the next that a man could hear his neighbor’s toilet flush. Grudges went back generations and children were judged by things their parents had done, sometimes years before their birth. Magdalena and her younger sister […]

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Silent House

Catherine — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:19:07 +0000

It is the summer of 1980 and in a tall, dilapidated house in the seaside town of Cennethisar in Turkey, ninety-year-old Fatma awaits the arrival of her three grandchildren, Faruk, Nilgün, and Metin. She lives alone in this house with the exception of a manservant named Recep, whom readers will learn soon enough, is also […]

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