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Cygnet by Season Butler

June 24, 2019

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The narrator of Season Butler’s debut novel, Cygnet, is known as the Kid. She’s 17 and her parents have dropped her off at her grandmother’s house on an island off the coast of New Hampshire to live ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, debut, Harper, literary, New England

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

March 8, 2019

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It’s the end of the 19th century when Bertha Truitt appears in Salford, Massachussetts. Literally, just appears. If she has a past she doesn’t want to talk about it. What she does want to do is open ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: family saga, historical fiction, New England

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

November 14, 2018

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Halloween may be over but the advancing winter weather still makes a perfect backdrop for creepy reading. Last week I wrote about Killing Commendatore, a Japanese novel that was oddly unsettling, but ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: horror, literary, Little Brown and Company, mystery, New England

Gone So Long: A Novel

October 8, 2018

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Gone So Long is both the title and the main situation in this new novel from Andre DuBus III. Daniel Ahearn is dying of cancer. He lives a quiet life alone in a small New England town and works ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, literary, New England, W.W. Norton

Quiet Summer Reading: The Garden Party

July 20, 2018

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Summer is fun and light and for a lot of people, me included, my reading turns the same way. I want thrillers, chick-lit, humor. But just like anything else in life, too much of the same thing, even ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, literary, New England, Random House

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