Delilah hasn’t been home in forty years, but when she arrives on her family’s farm in South Africa it’s to find her sister Ruth drunk on the couch and getting ready to sell the place. The sisters are ... Read More...
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Thanks to his strict grandmother, Elwood Curtis is the kind of young man anyone would be proud of. He's smart, honest, and dependable. He is a devoted follower of Martin Luther King, listening to a ... Read More...
Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar
This month Thrity Umrigar's novel, Everybody's Son, was released in paperback so I'm revisiting my review of this entertaining and thought provoking book. Even more good news: Umrigar has a new ... Read More...
Speak No Evil
Life provides a graceful arc for the fortunate When you’re a teenager, relationships feel exceptionally complicated, something Niru and Meredith learn in in Speak No Evil, the new novel from ... Read More...
An American Marriage: A Novel
Where are you left when you’ve been married for less than two years and your husband is sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit? This is the weighty premise of Tayari Jones’s new novel, An ... Read More...
