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Trust by Hernan Diaz

Trust by Hernan Diaz After learning this work shared the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction with Demon Copperhead, I had to…

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman This review originally appeared in the New York Review of Books. With a truly…

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…

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

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

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

Provenance by Sue Mell

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

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

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

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

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas Having heard this book compared to Atkinson's Life after Life, I…