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    The Pretender

    After 500 years, Tudor history has every right to be stale. Its cut-throat court politics have been hashed and rehashed by novelists, poets, and playwrights since Henry VIII was still picking wives. ...

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    The Pale in Ireland

    In Jo Harkin's new novel The Pretender, Lambert Simnel—a long-shot hopeful for the English throne—is taken to raise an army in the English Pale in Ireland, the last Tudor stronghold on...

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    Happy Land

    Dolen Perkins-Valdez is an established author of historical novels, including Take My Hand, previously reviewed by our First Impressions readers and voted a BookBrowse Top 20 title of 2022. Reviewers ...

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    The Kingdom of the Happy Land

    Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, which follows a group of formerly enslaved people who build a self-sustaining community on a mountainous plot of land in the Carolinas during the Reconstruction...

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    Stag Dance

    Six chapters into the titular "novel" of Torrey Peters' collection Stag Dance, a big, burly lumberjack named Babe working in an illegal logging camp in early 20th-century Montana becomes annoyed when ...

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    Gender Fluidity and Trans Identity in the Old West

    The titular 'novel' from Torrey Peters' book Stag Dance takes place in an illegal logging camp in early 1900s Montana. During a cold and lonely winter, the lumberjacks there hold a dance, with some ...

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    Careless People

    Sarah Wynn-Williams was working for the New Zealand government in 2009 when she had an epiphany: Facebook had the power to change the world. "It seemed obvious that politics was going to happen on ...

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    Facebook's Early Days

    Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, Careless People, details her experiences at Facebook from 2011 to 2017. The company had been around for seven years before her chronicle begins, however, and its ...

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    When the Moon Hits Your Eye

    One day, without warning, the Moon turns into a giant ball of cheese. Every piece of Moon rock on Earth turns with it. Nobody knows why, and there is the general understanding that nobody would be ...

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    The "Moon Is Made of Cheese" Trope

    While the central conceit of John Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eye is that the Moon has turned to cheese, the book is not overly concerned with how this has happened. Instead, it's more interested...

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    Counting Backwards

    Counting Backwards should be a sad story of neurological decline, but instead, author Binnie Kirshenbaum uses wit to further the conversation around illness and marriage. Addie is a collage artist ...

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    In Sickness and In Health: Illness and Marriage

    While planning her wedding at the age of twenty-four, after seven years of dating her fiancé, Erin Fortin was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria, or PNH...

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April 23, 2025

The BookBrowse Review

April 23, 2025

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including The Pretender by Jo Harkin, Stag Dance by Torrey Peters, and The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu. We also bring you our list of The Most Popular Book Club Books of 2024, previews of upcoming books, author interviews, and more.

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