social issues Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/social-issues/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:26:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg social issues Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/social-issues/ 32 32 38398750 Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/black-and-blue-by-anna-quindlen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/black-and-blue-by-anna-quindlen/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:07:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18825 I’ve been trying hard to stick with reviewing more comforting reading, but I had a chance to delve into a favorite author’s backlist and took it. I’ve been an Anna Quindlen fan for years and recently decided to try her second novel. Published in 1998, Black and Blue is one woman’s story and the lengths […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/black-and-blue-by-anna-quindlen/feed/ 5 18825 There Are Rivers in the Sky https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:23:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18626   Elif Shafak is one of my favorite authors for the kind of writing that makes me marvel at its beauty while reeling at its impact. Whether it’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, about how long the brain works after death or The Island of Missing Trees, set in Cyprus, she embraces […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky/feed/ 0 18626 Real Americans by Rachel Khong https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/real-americans-by-rachel-khong/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/real-americans-by-rachel-khong/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:46:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18491 Rachel Khong’s new novel, Real Americans is one family’s story told in four parts spanning from the year 2000 into some time in the near future. The first is set in NYC and introduces a young woman named Lily who falls in love with the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. Part two takes place 15 […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/real-americans-by-rachel-khong/feed/ 0 18491 A Fever in the Heartland https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/a-fever-in-the-heartland/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/a-fever-in-the-heartland/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:15:03 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17774 I had little idea what to expect when I picked up Timothy Egan’s new book, A Fever in the Heartland. I knew it was about the Ku Klux Klan, but its subtitle seemed a bit dramatic: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. It actually proved to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/08/a-fever-in-the-heartland/feed/ 10 17774 The Many Lives of Mama Love https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-many-lives-of-mama-love/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-many-lives-of-mama-love/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:53:04 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17738 It’s a picture-perfect Saturday in Northern California with soccer parents lining the field and watching their kids play. As the game winds down most mothers go to retrieve their young, but Lara Love hangs back. And surreptitiously lifts cash out of a wallet in one of the handbags left behind in the stands. She moves […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-many-lives-of-mama-love/feed/ 4 17738 Such Kindness: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/such-kindness-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/such-kindness-a-novel/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2023 07:05:50 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17628 I’ve been craving pace in my reading lately so am surprised to be here with an introspective novel spanning only a few days and very little action. Set in present-day Massachusetts, Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III is a tender, painful look at one man’s reckoning of an expansive life that once included marriage, a […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/such-kindness-a-novel/feed/ 2 17628 All the Sinners Bleed https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/all-the-sinners-bleed/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/all-the-sinners-bleed/#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:38:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17611   It occurred to him no place was more confused by its past or more terrified of the future than The South. It’s always gratifying to watch a new author come into their own. I’ve been reading S.A. Cosby since his debut Blacktop Wasteland and have found his writing getting stronger with each of his […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/all-the-sinners-bleed/feed/ 6 17611 Yellowface: A Novel by R.F. Kuang https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/#comments Mon, 29 May 2023 07:09:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17582 I’ve contorted the truth into such ways that I can, in fact, make peace with it. THIS. BOOK. Yikes. Ostensibly, Yellowface is about June Hayward, an aspiring writer who has quietly seethed as her friend Athena gets the success and accolades June craves. When Athena dies in a tragic accident June uses it as an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/feed/ 8 17582 Symphony of Secrets: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/symphony-of-secrets-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/symphony-of-secrets-a-novel/#comments Thu, 11 May 2023 07:35:49 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17548 When Bern Hendricks is asked to authenticate a piece of music believed to written by his hero, famed 20th century composer, Frederic Delaney, it’s the chance of a lifetime. A scholar of his works and a new professor, it will be a triumph for Hendricks, both personally and professionally. But when he discovers documentation about […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/symphony-of-secrets-a-novel/feed/ 1 17548 True Biz by Sara Novic https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/true-biz-by-sara-novic/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/true-biz-by-sara-novic/#comments Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:20:14 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17362 So much of today’s zeitgeist revolves around the much needed recognition of vulnerable communities, but what about acknowledgement for the community that can’t hear? Sara Novic explores the realities of deaf life in her riveting novel True Biz. Set at the River Valley School for the Deaf boarding school, the novel encompasses the lives of […]

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