Meg Nola, Book Reviewer

Book Review

When We Were Feral

by Meg Nola

Set in the early 1990s, Shasta Grant’s riveting novel "When We Were Feral" follows three adolescent girls venturing through loss, exploration, and unsettling discoveries. In a New Hampshire river town, Maggie and Sarah look forward to... Read More

Book Review

Hope House

by Meg Nola

In Joe Bond’s outstanding novel "Hope House", troubled teenage boys try to find community and a sense of purpose at a Kentucky group home during the 1980s. Fourteen-year-old AWOL lives in a rundown Victorian home, Hope House. It’s... Read More

Book Review

Abundance

by Meg Nola

The matriarch of an Indian American family experiences an escalating health crisis in "Abundance", Hafeez Lakhani’s compelling novel. Across three decades, Indian immigrants Ramzan and Sakeena raise a family in South Florida while... Read More

Book Review

Farewell Tangier

by Meg Nola

In Salma El Moumni’s sinuous novel "Farewell Tangier", a young Moroccan woman struggles with self-doubt, body dysmorphia, and cultural and sexual repression. From the age of ten, Alia notices men pursuing her with territorial... Read More

Book Review

The Memory Museum

by Meg Nola

The short stories collected in M Lin’s encompassing book "The Memory Museum" concern the conflicts and commonalities experienced by Chinese nationals, who reflect upon the past, travel abroad, emigrate, or remain within their home... Read More

Book Review

The Invisible Canvas

by Meg Nola

The introspective novel "The Invisible Canvas" follows a woman as she uses therapy to come into her own. In Kalyani Adusumilli’s intricate novel "The Invisible Canvas", a South Asian American woman’s emotional breakdown leads to... Read More

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