Jodi has dealt with feeling unwanted and out of place for most of her life. As a little girl her parents decided she was best off being raised by her grandmother on a remote farm in the Appalachians of West Virginia. Later, as a teen she fell deeply ... Read More...
Dark Fiction: The Line That Held Us
I hadn’t planned on a week of reviews about dark (or difficult) fiction, but realized that’s where my reading had gone after finishing David Joy’s The Line That Held Us. It’s the story of Darl Moody, who while poaching on a neighbor’s land, ... Read More...
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
On Monday I mentioned having a book hangover and Delia Owens’s debut, Where the Crawdads Sing, is the culprit. What is worse is that I tried to read my way out of it and got mired in overwrought, pretentious prose that pushed all of Crawdads ... 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 American Marriage. Celestial and Roy are a young couple ... Read More...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
It’s been a very long time since I read a book that has left me so confounded, so unable to say clearly how it made me feel. That I’ve recently read such a book and that its non-fiction is even more unusual. It may be that going into J.D. Vance’s ... Read More...
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