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The Map of Salt and Stars

May 14, 2018

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Making maps is the fulcrum for Jennifer Joukhadar’s debut novel, The Map of Salt and Stars. Rawiya and Nour are young women who tell their stories side by side even though they are separated by almost ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, cultural, Middle East, mythology, Touchstone, war

Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller

April 9, 2018

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No matter what else you might think about them, no one knows how to do drama like the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. And no one knows how to translate this drama for the modern mind like ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, literary, Little Brown and Company, mythology

The Song of Achilles

August 28, 2012

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While it’s tempting to adopt an intellectual attitude, in this case I’m going to go with honesty and risk losing everyone’s respect: to date, my greatest interest in the Battle of Troy came when ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, ecco, Greece, mythology

The Dovekeepers

July 11, 2012

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  I’ve read enough Alice Hoffman to believe that she is one of the world’s best writers about women. Her plots may be fantastical but even as her female characters behave in magical and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, Middle East, mythology, religion, Simon & Schuster, women

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