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The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters

September 12, 2014

harristown sisters

The Swineys are seven Irish sisters of unknown paternity growing up in a falling-down shack in a small town in Ireland in the late 1800s. They have no electricity, no indoor toilets, and so little ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, family saga, historical fiction, magical realism

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

June 27, 2014

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Lillian Dunkle, the Ice Cream Queen of America, lives in a Park Avenue apartment and has a home in Bedford but began life as Malka Treynovsky in Vishnev, Russia. Susan Jane Gilman’s new novel, The Ice ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, book clubs, family saga, Grand Central Publishing, historical fiction, Manhattan

The Signature of All Things

October 2, 2013

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Elizabeth Gilbert is back after her foray into relationships in Eat Pray Love and Committed, with a new work of fiction called The Signature of All Things. The novel is a family saga that spans ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 18th century, 19th century, book clubs, family saga, historical fiction, Riverhead Books

A Dual Inheritance

July 24, 2013

A Dual Inheritance

  For as far back as they could remember, they’d both felt like outsiders. That they’d shared this feeling—that they shared anything –was surprising to both of them. Surprising and tremendously ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1960s, Ballantine, book clubs, family saga, historical fiction

And Sons

July 22, 2013

And Sons

  David Gilbert’s & Sons is one of the most complex books I’ve read in a long time. By this I mean the plot did not appear until just shy of page 200 and I found most of the main characters to be ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family saga, Manhattan, Random House

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