One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
Days after finishing One Two Three, I am still holding it close to my heart! Everything works in this novel – every character, every word, every lie, every truth. This is...
Category: Fiction
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Before I began attending The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System’s Social Justice Book Clubs and Learning Circles devoted to teaching and discussing Black History, I had never heard of Octavia E. Butler....
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
This novel is brilliant. One of the many perfect decisions the author makes is to write in the voice of Adunni, a fourteen-year-old girl living in the current-day, small rural Nigerian...
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
I will begin by saying that some reviews have not been especially kind to The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, but I loved it. Originally written in French [La Fille...
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Before Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie revealed her gifts as a storyteller in Purple Hibiscus, longlisted for the Booker prize, and Half a Yellow Sun, winner of the Orange prize. With Americanah,...
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez does not use a question mark after the title What Are You Going Through (2020). She has stated that she views the phrase not as a question but more...
Little Gods by Meng Jin
What do you do when your debut novel is a masterpiece? In Meng Jin’s case, I have no doubt, she’ll produce another and another. It is rare that an author creates...
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I was a little nervous when I read that one of the most important voices in America today, Ta-Nehisi Coates, had written a novel. I cherished his nonfiction starting with We...
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
In 2002, Australian foreign correspondent Gina Wilkinson was living and working in Bangkok when her Canadian husband was offered a posting in Baghdad working for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)....
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
In the Afterword and Acknowledgments to The Night Watchman, Ms. Erdich states that “if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits...
