Fiction
The Light Pirate
(warning: This book, while not having any spoilers, does sketch out the parts of the novel. If you want to experience the true glory of this novel, go and read…
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The Maid
In Nita Prose’s The Maid, we are given a first-person narrator in Molly—the Maid herself. Molly, a presumably neurodivergent young woman, finds her sole joy in working as a housemaid…
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Tom Lake
Set in the crucible of Spring 2020, as the pandemic’s grip tightened, Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a marvel. The narrative takes place over a few weeks on a family…
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Apples Never Fall
Joy Delaney, almost 70, has vanished. Her husband of fifty years, Stan, and their four kids–Brooke, Amy, Logan, and Troy–say they’ve no idea where’s she gone. She left no word…
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Illumination Night
Illumination Night was my favorite book for a decade of my life. It and Josephine Humphrey’s Dreams of Sleep are two stories I wish I had the talent to have written….
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