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Ruby: A Novel

April 28, 2014

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  Ephram Jennings has been in love with Ruby Bell since they met as children fishing in a lake near their hometown of Liberty, in east Texas. When Ruby returns to Liberty after escaping as a young ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Hogarth, magical realism, Southern life

Bark: Stories

February 28, 2014

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I’m going to start with a little confession: I’ve never read Lorrie Moore before (say that three times fast). Why not? Who knows? But now after finishing her latest collection of short stories, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Knopf, magical realism, short stories

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

February 26, 2014

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The Museum of Extraordinary Things is both the name of Alice Hoffman’s new historical novel and the name of the museum Coralie’s father owns. She lives alone with him in the house next to the museum ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, book clubs, historical fiction, magical realism, New York City, Scribner

The Color Master

September 25, 2013

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  Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is one of my favorite books. Her combination of magical and realism makes for poetic, moving reading. Last month her newest book of short ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Doubleday, literary, magical realism, short stories

No One is Here Except All of Us

February 22, 2013

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That one world is at war does nothing to interrupt the patient churning of peaceful years someplace far away. There are so many kinds of fiction and so many ways an author can draw a reader in. Some ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Europe, historical fiction, magical realism, Riverhead Books, WWII

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