Book Review
An American Nurse in Paris
by Meg Nola
The human beings affected by World War I are centered in the moving historical novel "An American Nurse in Paris". In John F. Andrews’s affecting historical novel "An American Nurse in Paris", a journalist becomes a Red Cross army...
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A Couple
by Meg Nola
Éliette Abécassis’s taut and poignant novel uses reverse chronology to explore significant moments in the lives of a Parisian couple. Jules and Alice meet in the Jardin du Luxembourg in 1955, when Alice is eighteen and Jules is...
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All That Dies in April
by Meg Nola
In Mariana Travacio’s compact and lyrical novel "All That Dies in April", a woman leaves the parched landscape of her village above the Argentinian pampas to search for the sea. For fourteen years, Lina begged her husband Relicario to...
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I Who Have Never Known Men
by Meg Nola
In Jacqueline Harpman’s riveting novel "I Who Have Never Known Men", a girl emerges from dehumanizing confinement into a troubled and deserted landscape. Following a terrifying event called “the disaster,” thirty-nine women are...
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The Third Love
by Meg Nola
In Hiromi Kawakami’s transfixing novel "The Third Love", a Tokyo woman evades unhappy realities through her complex, sensual dreams. Even as a child, Riko was drawn to charming Naa-chan. While the “enfolding warmth” that she felt...
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The Eighth House
by Meg Nola
Linda Segtnan’s haunting true crime book delves into the 1948 murder of a Swedish girl and the intense psychological effects Segtnan experienced while researching the crime. In 2018, Segtnan was working on a project at the National...
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Double Room
by Meg Nola
A bereaved composer keeps the memory of his late wife alive by unusual means in Anne Sénès’s mesmerizing novel "Double Room". In the late 1990s, Stan receives an offer to compose music for a theatrical production. He travels from...
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A Clan Chief's Daughter
by Meg Nola
A gifted young woman comes into her own in the engrossing historical saga A Clan Chief’s Daughter, part of a continuing series. Sarah V. Barnes’s riveting historical novel A Clan Chief’s Daughter continues the prehistoric saga of...