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REVIEW: EARTH 7 BY DEB OLIN UNFERTH

REVIEW: EARTH 7 BY DEB OLIN UNFERTH

Hannah deBree

With Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth has penned a speculative novel about resilience and impermanence that conjures the shattering of a civilization and the collapse of a whole planet. It...

REVIEW: EARTH 7 BY DEB OLIN UNFERTH

With Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth has penned a speculative novel about resilience and impermanence that conjures the shattering of a civilization and the collapse of a whole planet. It...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: FAMOUS MEN BY JULIE BUNTIN

REVIEW: FAMOUS MEN BY JULIE BUNTIN

Hannah deBree

Inspired by the early stages of the #MeToo movement, Famous Men is lucid and smart, a complex coming-of-age novel about complicity and power that reckons with and elucidates the current...

REVIEW: FAMOUS MEN BY JULIE BUNTIN

Inspired by the early stages of the #MeToo movement, Famous Men is lucid and smart, a complex coming-of-age novel about complicity and power that reckons with and elucidates the current...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: BEGINNING MIDDLE END BY VALERIA LUISELLI

REVIEW: BEGINNING MIDDLE END BY VALERIA LUISELLI

Hannah deBree

Valeria Luiselli's Beginning Middle End is a deceptively simple novel about a woman reconfiguring her relationship with her daughter and her idea of home and self after a divorce.

REVIEW: BEGINNING MIDDLE END BY VALERIA LUISELLI

Valeria Luiselli's Beginning Middle End is a deceptively simple novel about a woman reconfiguring her relationship with her daughter and her idea of home and self after a divorce.

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: LION BY SONYA WALGER

REVIEW: LION BY SONYA WALGER

Hannah deBree

Actress Sonya Walger's stunning autobiographical novel charts the remote love of a gregarious but absent father. This father is always out of reach, physically and emotionally away.

REVIEW: LION BY SONYA WALGER

Actress Sonya Walger's stunning autobiographical novel charts the remote love of a gregarious but absent father. This father is always out of reach, physically and emotionally away.

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: NOW I SURRENDER BY ÁLVARO ENRIGUE

REVIEW: NOW I SURRENDER BY ÁLVARO ENRIGUE

Hannah deBree

Every once in a while a book comes along that reminds you why you love to read. Now I Surrender is one of those books.

REVIEW: NOW I SURRENDER BY ÁLVARO ENRIGUE

Every once in a while a book comes along that reminds you why you love to read. Now I Surrender is one of those books.

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: DEVOTIONS BY LUCY CALDWELL

REVIEW: DEVOTIONS BY LUCY CALDWELL

Hannah deBree

  Wow, what a stellar collection. After reading the first 3 stories in DEVOTIONS I became fixated on finding and devouring everything Belfast-born author and playwright Lucy Caldwell has ever...

REVIEW: DEVOTIONS BY LUCY CALDWELL

  Wow, what a stellar collection. After reading the first 3 stories in DEVOTIONS I became fixated on finding and devouring everything Belfast-born author and playwright Lucy Caldwell has ever...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: AIR BY CHRISTIAN KRACHT

REVIEW: AIR BY CHRISTIAN KRACHT

Hannah deBree

AIR is both effortlessly simple and wondrously clever. An utterly mesmerizing read....

REVIEW: AIR BY CHRISTIAN KRACHT

AIR is both effortlessly simple and wondrously clever. An utterly mesmerizing read....

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: INTO THE BLUE BY EMMA BRODIE

REVIEW: INTO THE BLUE BY EMMA BRODIE

Hannah deBree

INTO THE BLUE BY EMMA BRODIE I was completely invested in this nerdy romance starring AJ and Noah, two drama kids on the cusp of adulthood who meet one summer...

REVIEW: INTO THE BLUE BY EMMA BRODIE

INTO THE BLUE BY EMMA BRODIE I was completely invested in this nerdy romance starring AJ and Noah, two drama kids on the cusp of adulthood who meet one summer...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: AQUA BY CHIARA BARZINI

REVIEW: AQUA BY CHIARA BARZINI

Hannah deBree

In AQUA, part memoir, part road trip narrative, Italian writer Chiara Barzini explores the mirage of Los Angeles, the glittering city of contradictions, while chasing her own version of the...

REVIEW: AQUA BY CHIARA BARZINI

In AQUA, part memoir, part road trip narrative, Italian writer Chiara Barzini explores the mirage of Los Angeles, the glittering city of contradictions, while chasing her own version of the...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: LONDON FALLING BY PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

REVIEW: LONDON FALLING BY PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

Hannah deBree

Patrick Radden Keefe tells a really good story. Full of twists and turns, and shocking revelations, his newest, LONDON FALLING, is just that: a captivating true story about one London family's...

REVIEW: LONDON FALLING BY PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

Patrick Radden Keefe tells a really good story. Full of twists and turns, and shocking revelations, his newest, LONDON FALLING, is just that: a captivating true story about one London family's...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING BY ERIN VINCENT

REVIEW: FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING BY ERIN VINCENT

Hannah deBree

A smart and lucid mélange of heartbreak and healing. For Vincent, the number fourteen becomes a personal touchstone and a medium for locating community within the ongoingness of grief. 

REVIEW: FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING BY ERIN VINCENT

A smart and lucid mélange of heartbreak and healing. For Vincent, the number fourteen becomes a personal touchstone and a medium for locating community within the ongoingness of grief. 

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH BY SÓLRÚN MICHELSEN

REVIEW: ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH BY SÓLRÚN MICHELSEN

Hannah deBree

ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH by Sólrún Michelsen, translated from Faroese by Marita Thomsen From the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English comes this poignant and utterly captivating...

REVIEW: ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH BY SÓLRÚN MICHELSEN

ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH by Sólrún Michelsen, translated from Faroese by Marita Thomsen From the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English comes this poignant and utterly captivating...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: THE SUMMER BOY BY PHILIPPE BESSON

REVIEW: THE SUMMER BOY BY PHILIPPE BESSON

Hannah deBree

THE SUMMER BOY is the story of a handful of teenage boys on the cusp of adulthood, nights out drinking at the local club, young lust and sexual awakening, all...

REVIEW: THE SUMMER BOY BY PHILIPPE BESSON

THE SUMMER BOY is the story of a handful of teenage boys on the cusp of adulthood, nights out drinking at the local club, young lust and sexual awakening, all...

By Hannah deBree
REVIEW: WHISTLER BY ANN PATCHETT

REVIEW: WHISTLER BY ANN PATCHETT

Hannah deBree

Ever a writer's writer, Patchett reminds us that it's never too late to live a life full of meaning and connection. Whistler is soul-stirring and deeply satisfying.

REVIEW: WHISTLER BY ANN PATCHETT

Ever a writer's writer, Patchett reminds us that it's never too late to live a life full of meaning and connection. Whistler is soul-stirring and deeply satisfying.

By Hannah deBree