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How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue This is a heartbreaking novel, portraying the destruction of a town and a…

Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkly This review originally appeared in the New York Review of Books. A collection of ten…

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver For a person embarking on her own journey into…

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson This novel's exploration of Ursula Todd's multiple lives might, at first, leave the reader…

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Although this novel turns into a fast-paced thriller mid-stream, what I was drawn to was…

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan I was drawn to the dystopian premise of this novel, that mothers…

Provenance by Sue Mell Sue Mell's PROVENANCE is a jewel of a novel. To be able to transform the domestic,…

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li This is a book about the deep psychological and emotional bond between two…

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro Listening to the audio narrated by the author was an extra pleasure. Shapiro knows something…

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Kingsolver transports the reader into one young man's heartbreaking life in a manner that feels…