Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A Charlotte Mecklenburg Adult Services Librarian facilitates the book club at the West Boulevard branch of which I‘m a proud member. We don’t take ourselves too seriously; we share lots of...
Category: Fiction
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Nancy Johnson is an award-winning television journalist who makes her fiction debut with The Kindest Lie, a novel less about race than about the sacrifices all of us make to become...
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo describes herself as an activist particularly interested in representing marginalized voices in novels that are “rich, complex, original, exciting, and as readable as possible.” In Girl, Woman, Other, we...
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
In 2018, Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Wonder, among other novels, began The Pull of the Stars inspired by the one-hundred-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic which killed millions...
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Enter Jai, a Hindu school-boy, who at nine-years-old loves to watch “Police Patrol” and “Live Crime” on television and seizes an opportunity to play detective himself when children begin disappearing from...
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
When I set up this blog, the omission of the romance category was intentional. I usually steer clear of the romance genre and I had no idea when I started to...
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
Years ago, a much-loved Uncle asked if he could come and visit. I was thrilled. He was known for his detailed storytelling and sure enough, after dinner, he settled into a...
The Revisioners: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Strong Black women form the centerpiece of Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s Revisioners, which focuses on the power of women, intergenerational trauma, mother-child relationships, caretaking, dementia, and the legacy of white entitlement and...
