Book Reviews

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,…

I loved this debut. A campus novel where a young woman has an affair with her professor that has ramifications…

I was looking forward to loving this book. I did find the tale of the fate of Apple Island compelling…

I listened to the audiobook thanks to Libro.fm. This medium accentuated the lyrical quality of McEwan’s prose. I could have…