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Leaving Coy’s Hill by Katherine A. Sherbrooke

Leaving Coy's Hill by Katherine A. Sherbrooke With incredible elegance and insight, Leaving Coy's Hill strikes a perfect balance between historical…

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Okay, so a haunted girls boarding school set in Little Compton, Rhode Island...…

White Ivy by Susie Yang · NYJB Review

White Ivy by Susie Yang This review originally appeared in the New York Journal of Books. White Ivy is a suspenseful…

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson To write a memoir in prose, to distill each experience into just the right…

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang A highly entertaining read, especially for an author with interactions in the publishing industry! A scathing…

The Book of V by Anna Solomon

The Book of V by Anna Solomon I loved this book's ambition. Any modern retelling of a biblical character has…

Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser

Cassandra Speaks is Lesser's musing on how it might be different if women told our civilization's earliest stories, how it…

Literary Community: The Silver Lining of the COVID Era

I finally had a hair appointment and while the grey is back under control and the cut is cute and…

Daddy by Emma Cline

Daddy by Emma Cline Daddy is a wonderful collection of stories that struck a chord with me for its insights…

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom What I loved most about this memoir was Sarah's voice, and her honest,…