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A Girl is A Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
A Girl Is a Body of Water: A stunning coming of age story (7/18/2020)
With A Girl is a Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi gives us an epic coming of age tale not only of Kirabo, a young girl growing up in the rural village of Nattette, but of the nation of Uganda. The story begins in 1975, when Kirabo is twelve. She lives with hermore
The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel
by Jennifer Rosner
The Yellow Bird Sings: A Story of Loss, Longing, and Music's Power to Heal (12/18/2019)
What if you were a happy five-year-old girl in Poland, surrounded by the sounds of music your family makes, and suddenly you were whisked away from your home and forced to live inside haybales, forbidden to make the slightest sound? This is the story of The Yellow Birdmore
Beirut Hellfire Society
by Rawi Hage
A Dance of Life, Death, and War (5/11/2019)
In Beirut Hellfire Society, Rawi Hage creates a dance that is savage, devastating, tender, mournful, and darkly, wickedly humorous. The novel is loosely a modern-day version of Antigone, set during one year of the Lebanese civil war. Rather than a sister intent on buryingmore
Lost Luggage
by Jordi Punti
Four Brothers Search for a Father (9/18/2013)
Jordi Punti's Lost Luggage, translated from the Spanish by Julie Wark, reminds me of those nested Russian dolls; open a layer of the story and inside is another layer, couching another, and so on, until you get to the tale's vibrant, pulsing heart. Lost Luggage ismore
The House Girl
by Tara Conklin
Spellbound by the narration (11/21/2012)
The two juxtaposed strands in Tara Konklin's The House Girl immediately pulled me in: Josephine, fiercely proud house girl, born into slavery in Virginia in the 1830's, and Lina Sparrow, ambitious and fiercely independent lawyer, beginning a career with a prestigious Newmore
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
by Margot L. Stedman
The Light Between the Oceans: A Strong Debut (7/13/2012)
From the first sentence, M.L. Stedman's The Light Between the Oceans draws the reader into the world of its memorable characters. With lyrical prose and a breathtaking setting, Stedman almost literally places the central conflict of the novel at our feet: a dingy with amore
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