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Shelter in Place

September 28, 2016

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  Alexander Maksik doesn’t waste any time getting to the meat of his new novel Shelter in Place.  The first chapter is a small paragraph introducing Joe March with three facts: his mother beat a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, Europa Editions, family, literary, mental health, Pacific Northwest

The Golden Age: A Novel

September 16, 2016

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  Joan London’s The Golden Age is a quiet novel about a frightening time in the 1950s when, instead of fun and freedom, summer came to mean fear and isolation as pools were closed and children ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1950s, Australia, book clubs, Europa Editions

Sergio Y.

June 3, 2016

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  Armando is a seventy-year-old highly esteemed psychiatrist in São Paulo and the narrator of Sergio Y.  He is writing because of a patient he had many years ago—a seventeen-year-old boy who ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Europa Editions, South America, transgender

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