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...
Category: Fiction
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...
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...
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...
