In the Night of Memory, by Linda LeGarde Grover begins on what will turn out to be the worst […]
Save Me From Dangerous Men, by S.A. Lelchuk
Series opener Save Me From Dangerous Men, by S.A. Lelchuk, is a wild run. I almost put it down […]
Snow in May, by Kseniya Melnik
It’s a little black-hearted, but I suspect that we read stories about hard luck and […]
Famous Men Who Never Lived, by K Chess
The plight of a refugee is never easy. Uprooting oneself and family, fighting red tape […]
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 […]
The Huntress, by Kate Quinn
Who would believe a young woman who suspects that her new stepmother is hiding something […]
Mother Country, by Irina Reyn
Trigger warning for rape. What should a mother do? Everyone has ideas about this, even […]
The Ghost Notebooks, by Ben Dolnick
Trigger warning for suicide. In upstate New York is the home of an obscure American philosopher who went […]
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, by Anissa Gray
In Anissa Gray’s devastating novel, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, the fact that the matriarch of the family and […]