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Homeland Elegies: A Novel

October 5, 2020

homeland

These days, I’m attuned to fiction that takes my mind off reality. Not necessarily easy or soothing, but novels that grab me with their drama (Against the Loveless World) or distract me with their ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 21st century, book clubs, contemporary life, literary, politics, social issues, war

Against the Loveless World

September 4, 2020

against

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa is about Nahr, whose name means “river”, in Arabic. She has been in solitary confinement for 16 years in a cell she calls the Cube somewhere in modern-day ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, literary, Middle East, war, women

September Misses: Mini-Reviews

September 26, 2019

september

I’m not sure when exactly something can be considered the home stretch, but I think we’re getting there with our move. We have a closing date on our Ann Arbor house and we’ll be moving east at the end ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction, mini-reviews, mystery, retellings, war

A Door in the Earth

September 20, 2019

door

Parveen is like most young women her age—graduating college, but not sure what she wants to do with her degree in medical anthropology. Until she reads a memoir, written by a man who goes to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, cultural, literary, Little Brown and Company, Middle East, war

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

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