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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Catherine — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:16:24 +0000

I love Indian writers and fiction so was very excited for Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, but this story of two strangers from India who have been trying to make life in America work went all kinds of wrong for me. Sunny’s and Sonia’ families still live in India and are known […]

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Maame by Jessica George

Catherine — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:40:03 +0000

Maame is an African word for “woman” and the title of Jessica George’s debut novel, but for young Maddie it feels like a yoke on her shoulders. She lives at home as the part-time caretaker for her father. Her mother manages a hostel she inherited in Ghana and only returns to England intermittently. Her older […]

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The Cloisters: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:10:10 +0000

The Cloisters by Katy Hays has a catnip premise for readers like me: A studious young woman graduates from college and moves to the big city to get away from her sad, small-town life. In this case the girl is Ann and the city is Manhattan where she’s got a summer internship at The Cloisters, […]

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NSFW: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 04:50:04 +0000

I recently read NSFW a debut from Isabel Kaplan and I’m fairly certain my visceral reaction to the novel is a response becoming more and more common to me and to many of the women I know given recent events in America. Which is to say, I found the novel to be triggering in a […]

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Last Bit of Summer: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:14:30 +0000

And by last I really mean LAST. Two more days left in August and then it’s September. But doesn’t everyone count Labor Day weekend as summer? I’m going to, even as ready as I am for this summer to be over. Thankfully, my end-of-August reading has been outstanding. More about that later, but today I’ve […]

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Cover Story: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 04:44:56 +0000

It’s a happy Monday—I’ve got an easy 5-star, fun, tear-through novel that I literally started and finished in one day because I couldn’t stop reading. Cover Story, based on the Anna Sorokin scandal, is just that good. In it, a young writer, Lora, finds herself flunking out of NYU just before getting a summer internship […]

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Must Love Books

Catherine — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 05:10:44 +0000

Given how much I love anything having to do with books, today’s review won’t come as much of a surprise: Must Love Books a debut by Shauna Robinson. That title! How could I not read it, especially because it’s about Nora, a young Black woman working in the publishing industry. After five years as an […]

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The Boys’ Club: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:15:52 +0000

Klasko & Fitch is a massive law firm where the best of the best work, so Alex Vogel is thrilled to be hired there. When she learns the most powerful and lucrative group in the firm is Mergers & Acquisitions, she signs up. She’s energized, not intimidated, because Alex always likes to win. The Boys’ […]

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Such a Fun Age: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 05:47:16 +0000

Emira Tucker is struggling with adulthood. She’s not quite sure what she wants to do. The only job she enjoys is babysitting two-year-old Briar. So, when Briar’s mother calls on a Saturday night asking if Emira can come and get the little girl she says yes. From there things in Such a Fun Age get […]

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Queenie: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:47:28 +0000

Queenie is a 25-year-old British Jamaican woman who’s got her dream job and a strong circle of friends. She’s also separated from her white boyfriend, living in a tiny dump of an apartment with roommates she avoids, and is on the verge of losing her job because she spends so much time at the office […]

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