Literary
The Talking Drum
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The deleterious effects of the gentrification of a Black neighborhood in the early 1970s are explored with insight in The Talking Drum. Three ...Read Review
Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art
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Appropriately subtitled ‘A Novel of a Life in Art’, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan tells the life of 93-year-old artist Violet Swan. ...Read Review
A Thousand Ships
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‘A thousand ships’ conjures up a face familiar to the world, equally admired and derided―that of Helen of Troy. But those thousand ...Read Review
Gerta: A Novel
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The upheaval begins for Gerta Schnirch in the first year of secondary school when her beloved art teacher is let go and she ...Read Review
I’m Staying Here
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This fascinating story set in northern Italy, on the Austrian border, begins in 1923 and ends in 1950. It’s told in first-person narrative as ...Read Review
Side Effects: A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse
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Full of postwar optimism, a newly married couple from New York set out to travel the country by motorcycle. When they reach California, ...Read Review
Imperfect Alchemist
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In 1573, two bright young girls lead very different lives. Wealthy aristocrat Mary Sidney is learning her place as the only surviving daughter of ...Read Review
The Wasteland
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Set in pre-war London, The Wasteland is a gripping fictionalization of the suffocating life and tempestuous marriage of T. S. Eliot. In denial ...Read Review
Zorrie
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Zorrie Underwood lives and loves, marries and mourns, farms and fends for herself in Depression-era and 1950s Indiana. After deaths in her family, ...Read Review
Inside the Beautiful Inside
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An etching by George Arnaud from 1814 depicts a middle-aged man held chained to a stake with an iron ring around his neck, another ...Read Review