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Mothers’ Week: A Woman is No Man

May 8, 2019

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It’s easy to become outraged about the treatment of women in the Muslim world when it takes place far away, as in the memoir Daring to Drive or fiction like Song of a Captive Bird or The Pearl that ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, Harper, New York City, religion, social issues, women

Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews

April 1, 2019

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In the Mennonite community of Molotschna eight women gather in a barn to talk. Their meeting is a secret, made possible only because the men have gone into the city to bail out eight men who have been ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, book clubs, cultural, literary, religion, social issues, women

What I’m Reading This Week

March 25, 2019

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I’m not sure I remember a time when it was so hard to think about reading, but the past two weeks have been hectic enough that I’m mentally and physically frazzled. Last week was my first trip to Ann ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: contemporary life, lists, religion, social issues

A Place for Us: A Novel

July 2, 2018

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A Place for Us opens just before the beginning of an Indian family wedding in California. The bride, Hadia, is hoping that her brother, Amar, will show up. No one in the family has seen him for three ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, family, religion

The Book of Essie: A Novel

June 20, 2018

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For most young girls, being seventeen and pregnant is not a good place to be. For Esther Hicks it’s even worse because she is the youngest daughter of a fundamentalist pastor and part of a reality TV ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, debut, family, Knopf, religion

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