Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is a curious book, at least to me, because of the way […]
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 […]
The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift is a blend of genres I have never seen before. On the […]
The Goose Fritz, by Sergei Lebedev
Kirill, the protagonist of Sergei Lebedev’s erudite The Goose Fritz, has a gift for imagining the past. […]
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 […]
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, […]
A Boy in Winter, by Rachel Seiffert
This brief novel by Rachel Seiffert has a misleading title. The boy in A Boy in Winter, Yankel, […]
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 […]