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Crying in H-Mart is memoir by indie-pop musician Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) that focuses on her relationship with, and the death of, her Korean mother. …
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The Hurting Kind is the title of, and the title of a long title poem in Ada Limon’s latest collection, which centers around her grandfather’s …
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One Italian Summer, by best-selling author Rebecca Serle, combines romance and mother-daughter issues. Katy Silver and her mother plan a trip to Italy, where her …
Continue ReadingBook Review – The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris is clever social commentary about racism in the literary world. The protagonist, editorial assistant Nella Rogers, is …
Continue ReadingBook Review – What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems by Tom C. Hunley
Tom C. Hunley’s poetry collection What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems is aptly named. While the subject matter ranges from raising an autistic …
Continue ReadingBook Review – The Match, by Harlen Coben
In The Match, Harlen Coben revisits Wilde, the character introduced in 2020’s The Boy in the Woods, and Wilde’s attorney Hester. As set out in …
Continue ReadingBook Review – Bewilderment, by Richard Powers
“Almost nobody knows this, but plants do pretty much all the work. Everybody else is just a parasite,” says Robin, a nine-year old boy, in …
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Zorrie, a novel by Laird Hunt, is the story of a woman in decades-ago rural Indiana with a taste for hard work and a talent …
Continue ReadingBook Review – No One is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood, author of two poetry collections and the highly-acclaimed memoir Priestdaddy, has written a surreal novel titled No One is Talking About This. Lockwood …
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