A novel by Celeste Ng, published by Penguin Press in 2017. “Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.” I was so intrigued by Little Fires Everywhere…… Continue reading Little Fires Everywhere
Category: Literary
My Name is Lucy Barton
Published January 2016 by Random House. Literary awards include Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist, Women’s Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist, and Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction, all awarded in 2016. For the second time, Elizabeth Strout has taken my breath away. Her prose and stories have this way of nudging right into…… Continue reading My Name is Lucy Barton
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A novel, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, First Atria Books hardcover edition, June 2017* “Nobody deserves anything… It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves… No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other…… Continue reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Lightkeepers
The Lightkeepers: A novel by Abby Geni and published in 2016 by Counterpoint Press This is not the novel that brought me back to fiction, but I enjoyed it on so many levels that when I finished I felt a little lost because the journey had ended. I came across The Lightkeepers on Barnes and Noble’s*…… Continue reading The Lightkeepers
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