The title of Melissa Rivero’s affective novel, The Affairs of the Falcóns, sounds like a telenovela. “Affairs” recalls the […]
In the Night of Memory, by Linda LeGarde Grover
In the Night of Memory, by Linda LeGarde Grover begins on what will turn out to be the worst […]
Women Talking, by Miriam Toews
Trigger warning for rape. A foreword at the beginning of Miriam Toews devastating and infuriating novel, Women Talking, explains […]
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack, by H.M. Naqvi
Abdullah is a gentleman and a scholar. Unfortunately, no one in his family seems to […]
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World reminded me just how much I love unreliable narrators who are unreliable […]
The Temptation to Be Happy, by Lorenzo Marone
Trigger warning for domestic violence. Lorenzo Marone’s The Temptation to Be Happy (excellently translated by Shaun Whiteside) is masquerading as grump lit*. The […]
Home, by Leila S. Chudori
Leila S. Chudori’s Home (translated by John H. McGlynn) circles around a black day in […]
Snow in May, by Kseniya Melnik
It’s a little black-hearted, but I suspect that we read stories about hard luck and […]
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
By Sunday of this last week, I had read 100 pages of John Steinbeck’s opus, […]
Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
Trigger warning for rape and suicide. I am continuing my out-of-order dive into Louise Erdrich’s collections of interlinked […]