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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

August 15, 2018

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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, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, debut, Putnam, Southern life

An American Marriage: A Novel

February 26, 2018

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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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Algonquin Books, book clubs, contemporary life, marriage, racism, social issues, Southern life

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

January 22, 2018

hillbilly

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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, Harper, memoir, social issues, Southern life

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

December 6, 2017

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I wasn’t planning on making this my week of impressive, but painful, tragic books but here we are. Reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad  is like watching 12 Years a Slave—both are ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Doubleday, historical fiction, social issues, Southern life

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

November 17, 2017

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I haven’t had a great year of reading (until recently), but generally it felt pretty clear that it was the books not working, not me. Except for these two recent reads, which is why they’re It’s Not ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: childhood, ecco, family, mini-reviews, Southern life, Tin House

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