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Ask Again, Yes

November 25, 2019

ask again

This post may include Amazon links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Ask Again, Yes is a complex family story that begins with the lightest of connections. Brian ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, literary, mental health, relationships, Scribner

Mothers’ Week: The Island of Sea Women

May 6, 2019

island

This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day so this week my reviews are focused on three books with very different perspectives on motherhood. Each offered something important in its own way and reminded me ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, historical fiction, Scribner, Southeast Asia, war, women

Quiet Summer Reading: The Verdun Affair

July 27, 2018

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Last week I started this little feature for books that don't quite fit in the normal summer reading mold. This week's pick is still a quiet character study, but about a devastating time in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction, literary, Scribner, World War I

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

May 23, 2018

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  There isn’t any status in it unless you’d be impressed to know that the Mars Room is not a middling or mediocre strip club but is definitely the worst and most notorious, the very seediest and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Scribner, social issues, women

Self-Portrait with Boy: A Novel

February 23, 2018

self-portrait

  A startlingly unique and uncomfortable premise is at the heart of Self-Portrait with Boy: an artist is in the midst of taking a series of self-portraits against a window of her apartment when ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: art, contemporary life, debut, literary, Scribner

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