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If You Want to Make God Laugh: A Novel

July 22, 2019

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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...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, book clubs, cultural, literary, Putnam, racism, South Africa, women

Circling the Sun: A Novel

August 10, 2015

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I have a chart that traces my route over the Atlantic, Abingdon to New York, every inch of icy water I’ll pass over, but not the emptiness involved or the loneliness, or the fear. Those things are as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, South Africa, women

The Lion Seeker

December 18, 2013

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  The son of Lithuanian Jews who left the country in the 1920s and moved to South Africa, Isaac Helger grows up believing the only way to have self-worth is through money. “Working” for a living, as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, historical fiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, South Africa

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