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Small Rain
Small Rain: A Novel
by Garth Greenwell
A Surprisingly Deeply Absorbing Read (4/21/2025)
Much of this book is a detailed description of a poet's 10 day sojourn in the ICU, in the middle of the pandemic, as medical professionals try to figure out what has caused his aorta to tear. I inwardly groaned when I first opened the book to see lots of very long sentences …more
Mothers and Sons
Mothers and Sons: A Novel
by Adam Haslett
Absolutely Absorbing Read (4/15/2025)
I was enthralled by this story of a gay immigration attorney and his estrangement from his mother, who left her job in the ministry to found a feminist retreat in Vermont with her lesbian lover and long-time friend. The descriptions of the myriad incredible life and death …more
James
James: A Novel
by Percival Everett
Stunning Take on An American Classic (4/3/2025)
My first thought on reading this retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's point of view was "Why has no one done this before? And why have none of the white people who have revered Huck's story ever thought to deeply consider the way Jim's character is portrayed?" Praise …more
Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us: A Novel
by Dinaw Mengestu
Strangely beautiful story of the heartbreak of immigrant lives (4/3/2025)
This beautifully written and masterfully crafted novel lets us in to the inner world of Mamush, a struggling international journalist who must leave his wife and ill toddler in Paris to return to DC for the holidays, only to learn that Samuel, the father figure of his life …more
Brotherless Night
Brotherless Night: A Novel
by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Beautiful and Powerful (3/29/2025)
The powerful, deeply compassionate story of a young Tamil woman in Sri Lanka, working to become a doctor and keep her humanity in the midst of a growing civil war between the unjustly and often brutally treated Tamil minority and the Sri Lankan government. I was woefully …more
Beautyland
Beautyland: A Novel
by Marie-Helene Bertino
Wondrous, Delightful, Soulful (3/23/2025)
The journey of Adina, sent to earth as a baby to report on human life on earth by beings on her planet looking for a new home, is one of the most imaginative, wondrous novels I have read in many years. Her childhood observations, faxed to her superiors, and their matter of …more
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    For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.
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