If one were to ask, flat out, what Lucie did during the war, she would […]
Please Look After Mom, by Shin Kyung-Sook
Shin Kyung-Sook’s novel, Please Look After Mom, is one of the most tragic books I […]
Missy, by Raghav Rao
Missy’s life is divided into two unequal pieces. There is her youth in India and […]
Little Deaths, by Emma Flint
Trigger warning for child murder. Everyone has an opinion about Ruth Malone. A lot of […]
The Hidden Book, by Kirsty Manning
Have you ever seen a flip book? Most people have. If you haven’t, Wikipedia will […]
The Empusium, by Olga Tokarczuk
Trigger warning for brief discussion of suicide. In the years before a cure was available […]
The Haunting of Moscow House, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Because their uncle decides that the Golitevs would wait out the revolution in the hope […]
The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois, by Ryan Graudin
The three Enchantresses—Céleste, Honoré, and Sylvie—scrape a living with a variety of cons. They are […]
Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book before that made me want to shower […]
The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due
Trigger warnings for abuse and torture of children and prevalent racism. Tananarive Due’s novel, The […]