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From "the most talented writer of his generation” (The New York Times Magazine), a lightning flash of a novel that …
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he …
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work, …
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to …
A movel mixing different kinds of trauma: family and social trauma and ecological trauma.
A movel mixing different kinds of trauma: family and social trauma and ecological trauma.
Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to …
Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to …
Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading …
Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading …
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
I thought this was a short story collection. Someone I read online had recommended an earlier short story, but this was what my library had. The book interweaves two very different story lines, so it wasn't until chapter three that I realized.
One line consists of letters from a post Civil War woman running a boarding house in Tenessee to her deceased sister, while dealing with a boarder who may John Wilkes Booth. The other is the first person narrative of a Finn, a teacher losing his brother to cancer, and his ex-girlfriend to suicide. There are echoes within each story line of the other, but to say this doesn't neatly wrap things up is an understatement. Which is fine by me, although perhaps I wasn't in the right frame of mind for the mix of grief and insanity.
I thought this was a short story collection. Someone I read online had recommended an earlier short story, but this was what my library had. The book interweaves two very different story lines, so it wasn't until chapter three that I realized.
One line consists of letters from a post Civil War woman running a boarding house in Tenessee to her deceased sister, while dealing with a boarder who may John Wilkes Booth. The other is the first person narrative of a Finn, a teacher losing his brother to cancer, and his ex-girlfriend to suicide. There are echoes within each story line of the other, but to say this doesn't neatly wrap things up is an understatement. Which is fine by me, although perhaps I wasn't in the right frame of mind for the mix of grief and insanity.
"Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old …
An out-of-order diary that makes a point of emphasizing that it's been edited and sorted after the fact. I find it twee in places, and of course it's hard for me to identify with a successful academic in the years before Trump 1.
An out-of-order diary that makes a point of emphasizing that it's been edited and sorted after the fact. I find it twee in places, and of course it's hard for me to identify with a successful academic in the years before Trump 1.
@mouse@bookwyrm.social I read this just a few months ago -- can't remember what spurred me to get it. I liked it a lot, although sometimes the prose gets a little too purple for my taste.
@mouse@bookwyrm.social I read this just a few months ago -- can't remember what spurred me to get it. I liked it a lot, although sometimes the prose gets a little too purple for my taste.
