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Filmmaker/novelist Miranda July writes about a mom who goes on an adventure in ‘All Fours’
FICTION: Midway through her life, the narrator takes a detour from the expected into an unbounded exploration of desire.
May 7, 2024
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‘The Tiger’s Wife’ author Téa Obreht is back with ‘magical’ ‘The Morningside’
FICTION: In this climate fiction novel, Silvia and her mother immigrate to an inundated city and try to uncover its secrets.
March 12, 2024
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Kristin Hannah’s novel asks us to honor ‘The Women’ who served in Vietnam
FICTION: With cinematic detail, she dramatizes the life of an Army nurse before, during and after the war.
January 29, 2024
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Review: 'The Storm We Made'
FICTION: In 1935, a Malayan mother spies against the British, then is crushed by the consequences when Japanese troops invade her country.
December 27, 2023
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'Flores and Miss Paula' are a mother and daughter who try to connect in 'dishy' novel
FICTION: In contemporary Brooklyn, loss binds a mother and daughter but secrets keep them apart.
December 13, 2023
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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham charts a family's collapse, on one specific 'Day'
FICTION: Across three Aprils, a family splinters as the COVID-19 pandemic traps them in place.
November 7, 2023
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In colonial-era Malaysia, love and betrayal drive Booker Prize contender 'House of Doors'
FICTION: Tan Twan Eng has novelist William Somerset Maugham visiting an old friend and uncovering forbidden love.
October 12, 2023
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Review: Two communities unite in 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store'
FICTION: In the 1920s, Black and Jewish families rely on one another in James McBride's entertaining novel.
August 3, 2023
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'Flores and Miss Paula' are a mother and daughter who try to connect in 'dishy' novel
FICTION: In contemporary Brooklyn, loss binds a mother and daughter but secrets keep them apart.
December 13, 2023
Books
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham charts a family's collapse, on one specific 'Day'
FICTION: Across three Aprils, a family splinters as the COVID-19 pandemic traps them in place.
November 7, 2023
Books
In colonial-era Malaysia, love and betrayal drive Booker Prize contender 'House of Doors'
FICTION: Tan Twan Eng has novelist William Somerset Maugham visiting an old friend and uncovering forbidden love.
October 12, 2023
Books
Review: Two communities unite in 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store'
FICTION: In the 1920s, Black and Jewish families rely on one another in James McBride's entertaining novel.
August 3, 2023