Book Review
Little Ruth
Modeling effective, constructive problem-solving strategies for children, Little Ruth: Backpack Mishap is a vibrant picture book. In Dee Write’s educational picture book Little Ruth: Backpack Mishap, sisters take responsibility for...
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Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair
In Ella McLeod’s coming-of-age fairy tale Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair, a Black girl is split between adolescent anxieties and a battle against evil in her magical dreams. In Xaymaca, as foretold by prophecy, the Black witches...
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The Disappeared
In Rebecca J. Sanford’s multigenerational novel "The Disappeared", women contend with a military dictatorship in Argentina that leaves lingering questions. In the 1970s, Lorena and her husband are taken in the night by the junta. Esme,...
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Cinnamon Beach
In Suzanne Kamata’s novel "Cinnamon Beach", a man’s death brings together the grieving women in his family for a summer of self-reflection and discovery. To spread the final portion of Ted’s ashes, his family gathers along the...
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Goodnight Tokyo
Atsuhiro Yoshida’s novel "Goodnight Tokyo" delves into the nighttime activities of a disparate group of Tokyoites. For her latest assignment as a prop procurer for film sets, Mitsuki must secure loquats off-season. Enlisting Matsui’s...
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Summer Heat
Intergenerational family secrets reemerge in Defne Suman’s devastating novel "Summer Heat". Melike is a Turkish art historian who agrees to guide Petro, a documentarian, through Byzantine churches. But intimacy with Petro challenges...
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In Extremis
A writer from New York mocks and satirizes himself and other Los Angeles residents in the midst of a forest fire in the satirical novel "In Extremis". In Matt Duggan’s incisive novel "In Extremis", a transplant writer from New York...
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Together in a Broken World
Two boys survive the world’s end while fighting for their growing romance in Paul Michael Winters’s post-apocalyptic novel "Together in a Broken World". Following global collapse, most of the population is either dead or zombified....