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“Sipsworth”: A Slender, Powerful Novel

By: Barbette September 11, 2024September 10, 2024

ReviewsFiction, Novel, Review, Simon Van Booy, SipsworthLeave a Comment

A charming, uplifting novel featuring a grief-stricken widow befriended by a mouse that even cute-averse readers cannot resist.

“The Lost Story”: The Strongest Magic There Is

By: Jenny Maattala September 4, 2024August 22, 2024

ReviewsBallantine Books, Fiction, Meg Shaffer, Novel, The Lost StoryLeave a Comment

A review of Meg Shaffer’s “The Lost Story.”

Social Justice Propels “Pay the Piper”

By: Toby LeBlanc September 3, 2024September 2, 2024

ReviewsDaniel Kraus, Fiction, George Romero, Novel, Pay the Piper, ReviewLeave a Comment

Daniel Kraus brings the late George Romero’s last manuscript to light in this horror novel.

“The Road to the Country”: A War Novel About Brotherhood, Friendship

By: Bradley Sides August 16, 2024August 17, 2024

ReviewsChigozie Obioma, Fiction, Novel, Review, The Road to the Country1 Comment

Obioma captures guilt, fear, anger, hope, and love in his latest work. It’s a big and ambitious book, and it brilliantly succeeds.

An Appalachian Gothic Fairytale: Alisa Alering’s “Smothermoss”

By: Katie Valach August 9, 2024October 9, 2024

ReviewsAlisa Alering, Fiction, Novel, Review, Smothermoss, Tin House Books2 Comments

A review of Alisa Altering’s debut novel “Smothermoss.”

More than “Fine”: Thao Votang is a New, Respectable Voice in American Fiction

By: Nicole Yurcaba July 23, 2024July 3, 2024

ReviewsFiction, Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine, Novel, Review, Thao VotangLeave a Comment

“Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine” possesses a philosophical pizzazz most contemporary fiction lacks, and Linh Ly becomes a heroine for a new generation of multicultural Americans who have struggled to find their place.

“Paradise”: A Pandemic Novel that Offers a Way Forward

By: Amber Ruth Paulen July 12, 2024July 11, 2024

ReviewsFiction, Laura van den Berg, Novel, Review, State of ParadiseLeave a Comment

The novel tells a story about the change that happened to one woman during the summer of 2020 and, in doing so, it offers a way through the strata of reality by way of art.

“Lo Fi”: A Novel to Read and Listen To

By: Nicole Yurcaba July 9, 2024July 8, 2024

ReviewsFiction, Liz Riggs, Lo Fi, Novel, Riverhead BooksLeave a Comment

A review of the novel “Lo Fi” by Liz Riggs.

“Do Tell”: A Novel Ripe with Golden Age Hollywood Gossip

By: KT Sparks June 21, 2024June 25, 2024

ReviewsDo Tell, Fiction, Lindsay Lynch, Novel, ReviewLeave a Comment

An intimate, heart-breaking character study embedded in a crowd of engaging, chattering characters. A sparkling visit to a magical era in Hollywood and a deep dive into the dirty deceptions that made it appear so fine.