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The Fortunate Ones: A Novel

January 13, 2021

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Things are starting to turn around in Charlie Boykin’s life. The child of a single mother who works as a cocktail waitress, he’s been one of the only white boys at his school and in their Nashville ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: family saga, Southern life, wealth

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

October 19, 2020

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A healer, living alone in the woods, discovers a baby girl left in a basket in a snowy meadow near her home. The infant is guarded by a large black raven, letting the woman know this is no average ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: family saga, historical fiction, magic

Pachinko: A Novel

April 20, 2020

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Historical fiction seems to be the safest bet for my reading right now. Novels that put me in another place, in a different century or even a different decade, all seem to work at distracting my ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, family saga, historical fiction, Southeast Asia

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

July 24, 2019

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  I absolutely loved J. Ryan Stradal’s debut novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest so was nervous about his second novel. Sophomore efforts can be notoriously underwhelming. Happily, this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, family saga, Pamela Dorman Books

The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel

July 8, 2019

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Where to begin about The Most Fun We Ever Had? To be concise: It’s a sweeping story of a Chicago couple who meet and marry in 1970s and go on to have four daughters. But that’s like telling someone ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 21st century, book clubs, debut, Doubleday, family saga, marriage, relationships

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