Trigger warning for physical and verbal child abuse. Ruth Kahan has been evicted from assisted […]
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 […]
The Devil Raises His Own, by Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips takes Bill Ogden, protagonist of Cottonwood, and transports him years and miles away […]
After Oz, by Gordon McAlpine
The end of the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, is a happy one. Dorothy […]
Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara
Aki Ito has always looked up to her older sister, Rose. Rose was beautiful. She […]
The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry
Late in Kevin Barry’s amazing novel, The Heart in Winter, rumors start to race around […]
Love is a Burning Thing, by Nina St. Pierre
The way we grow up sets our definitions of what “normal” is. Childhood prepares us […]
Black Sheep, by Rachel Harrison
There’s a floating aphorism about everyone fighting a battle we know nothing about. This has […]
The Instruments of Darkness, by John Connolly
Charlie Parker returns in The Instruments of Darkness, by John Connolly, the twenty-first book in […]