Book Review
The Translator's Daughter
Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir The Translator’s Daughter is about her life as an assimilated immigrant. Prasad left Taiwan when she was still a toddler. Even after her parents returned to Taiwan years later, she elected to remain in the...
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Motherlike
Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she...
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The Little Liar
In Pascale Robert-Diard’s novel "The Little Liar", a weary small-town lawyer takes a professionally and emotionally challenging case. When Alice agrees to represent Lisa, a woman who was raped as a minor, the case seems cut-and-dried....
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Fine Dreams
A young victim of terrorism watches over those she left behind in Linda N. Masi’s novel "Fine Dreams". Kubra loved running, the color pink, and studying to become an educator like her mother. After she becomes collateral damage in a...
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Flight of the Wild Swan
Melissa Pritchard follows the troubled life of the celebrated yet complex Florence Nightingale in her enthralling novel "Flight of the Wild Swan". Florence Nightingale would never have been happy in the life her mother wanted for her: a...
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Flotsam
An Indigenous woman goes missing, prompting interpersonal reckonings, in the emotionally hefty novel "Flotsam". The search for a missing woman evokes strong emotions in those investigating the crime in Patricia Boomsma’s mystery novel...
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Let Them Whimper
In the surprising dystopian novel "Let Them Whimper", human imperfection might make the species worth saving after all. In K. Enterante’s shocking science fiction novel "Let Them Whimper", a handful of unlikely heroes fight to stop a...
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Black Postmaster in a White Town
A thorough biography-cum-true-crime book, "Black Postmaster in a White Town" reports on an overlooked nineteenth-century atrocity that affects the victims’ descendants to this day. Fostenia W. Baker’s biography of Frazier Baker,...