Christine Brunkhorst
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Jackie Thomas-Kennedy's first novel is 'The Other Wife'
Star Tribune reviewer Jackie Thomas-Kennedy explores an LGBTQ- and race-impacted take on marital ennui in her debut novel, "The Other Wife."
July 8, 2025
Review: As character goes about her ideal life, shocking cracks emerge in ‘Sleep’
Fiction: The slim debut novel is brimming with observations about family dynamics and buried pain.
May 13, 2025
Short stories look at those moments when living our lives feels unsettlingly like time traveling
Fiction: Tales in “How We Know Our Time Travelers” are told by sensitive, self-effacing narrators.
December 9, 2024
An L.A. writer checks her phone, makes passes in Anna Dorn’s ‘Perfume & Pain’
FICTION: A wickedly witty lesbian melodrama, set in Southern California.
May 15, 2024
The hero of novel ‘Ours’ frees enslaved people and makes them a home
FICTION: Blending magical realism and African mythology, this multi-generational saga connects life in the antebellum south to Blackness in America today.
February 14, 2024
Review: 'News of the World' writer returns with another outlaw outcast in 'Chenneville'
FICTION: More than revenge is on the line in this historical novel, set after the Civil War.
September 5, 2023
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Review: 'Sand and Fire' could make you want to explore an extraordinary world a car ride away
NONFICTION: A detailed, loving look at nature, just across the Minnesota border.
June 1, 2023
Review: 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club,' by J. Ryan Stradal
FICTION: Cultures collide in this culinary family saga set in Minnesota Lake Country.
April 14, 2023
Review: 'Sinkhole,' by Juliet Patterson
NONFICTION: A St. Paul memoirist struggles to understand suicide and its generational effect.
September 2, 2022
Review: 'The Ski Jumpers,' by Peter Geye
FICTION: Reeling from a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's, a writer and former ski jumper strives to dissect his family mythology.
September 2, 2022
Review: 'Radium,' by John Enger
FICTION: A Bemidji author's tale of two teenage brothers without prospects, evading the law after setting a massive fire.
July 22, 2022
Review: "What Just Happened" by Charles Finch
The intermittent observations of an L.A. novelist as he maneuvers through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 29, 2021
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