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Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

October 25, 2022

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Author Dani Shapiro wastes no time plunging her pen into the marrow of human experience in her latest novel, Signal Fires. It’s a summer night in 1985 and the Wilf family, Ben, Mimi, and their ... Read More...

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This Time Tomorrow

June 9, 2022

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I’ve had mixed success with time travel novels this summer (I’m looking at you, One Italian Summer) so I was a bit hesitant to pick up This Time Tomorrow. What swayed me is that it’s by Emma Straub, ... Read More...

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Marrying the Ketchups

June 3, 2022

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After my frank opinions in the May recap let’s start June off with some breezy family drama, shall we? Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close is the story of the Sullivans, a restaurant-owning family ... Read More...

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The Survivors: A Novel by Alex Schulman

November 22, 2021

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Alex Schulman is a well-known Swedish author with The Survivors being his first book to be translated into English. The novel begins with a policeman arriving at a lakeside cottage where three men ... Read More...

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The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

October 14, 2021

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What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. In The Rules of Magic Jet Owens and her siblings Franny and Vincent were dealing with their family’s curse about falling in love. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: England, family, family saga, magic, New England, women

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