It takes some gumption for an Anglo-Indian woman to pack herself up, with her child, […]
Payback, by Mary Gordon
Trigger warning for rape. Now that I think about it, I’m hard-pressed to say whether […]
Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa
Trigger warning for rape and anti-Semitism. Everything is political. Some of us are lucky enough […]
Postmark Bayou Chene, by Gwen Roland
Bayou Chene no longer exists. Looking at a map of how riverbeds in the Atchafalaya […]
The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue
I suspect that many readers and reviewers will focus on the prescience of Emma Donoghue’s […]
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, by Jennifer Hofmann
On the surface, the absurd and the surreal seem self-indulgent. Works in this group are […]
Crossings, by Alex Landragin
Alex Landragin’s Crossings is the kind of book that I’ve been waiting for, but not […]
Bottled Goods, by Sophie van Llewyn
Alina and Liviu are not happy people. This is not surprising, given that most people […]
The Widening Stain, by W. Bolingbroke Johnson
Originally published in 1942, The Widening Stain is a mystery that flirts heavily with satire. […]
The Eighth Life, by Nino Haratischwili
Trigger warning for rape. It feels like a century since I started reading The Eighth […]