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The Kim sisters—Minah, Sarah, and Esther—have just learned their father is dying of cancer. Minah, the eldest, is a high-functioning New York City lawyer determined to start a family. ...
Read ReviewMaureen Sun's The Sisters K was published by Los Angeles-based independent publisher Unnamed Press. Founded in 2014 by Chris Heiser and Olivia Taylor Smith, Unnamed Press was intended to be a ...
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From an infant's first attempts to connect with the world around them to the final words shared with the dying, human life and language are intimately intertwined. Linguist Julie Sedivy's new book, ...
Read ReviewWriters' Experiences with Aphasia
In Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love, a combination of popular science and memoir, linguist Julie Sedivy shares that one of her worst fears is that an illness or injury will cause her to develop ...
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At the start of Maame Blue's The Rest of You, Whitney Appiah, a Ghanaian Londoner, is ringing in her thirtieth birthday at a bar with her best friend and roommate, Chantelle. However, she is also ...
Read ReviewThe Ghanaian Tradition of Day Names
There are many different tribes and cultural influences in Ghana; therefore, Ghanaian culture shouldn't be assumed to be a monolith. However, the tradition of naming children after the day they ...
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The premise of The Book of George, the witty, highly entertaining new novel from Kate Greathead, is that every reader knows a George. Well-heeled and well-connected, he's a young man with all of life'...
Read ReviewIn The Book of George, Kate Greathead covers the life of her eponymous hero in 14 chapters depicting key moments from his first 40 years. In doing so, she draws on elements of the picaresque, an ...
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In Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel, Anna Williams-Bonner, the wife of recently deceased author Jacob Finch Bonner, is loving her new life as the widow of a man who wrote a blockbuster novel—if ...
Read ReviewIn The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, readers get a taste of what authors go through in the rite of publishing passage known as 'the book tour.' For new or established authors, a book tour usually ...
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Sarah Moss has been afflicted with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa since her pre-teen years but was able to keep the condition under some control for decades. During this period she completed a D...
Read ReviewIn her memoir My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss conjures up an imaginary wolf spirit to support her childhood self. She claims the idea came from a line in one of the first poems she memorized, "A ...
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Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Lisa See's latest historical novel, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China.
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