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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Book Review
Healing Ghosts, Haunted Places, and Non-Human Beings
by Meg Nola
"Healing Ghosts, Haunted Places, and Non-Human Beings" is an expansive training manual for multidimensional mediums. Part memoir, part professional guide, medium Tina M. Zion’s focused New Age text "Healing Ghosts, Haunted Places, and...
Book Review
In the Shadow of the Most High
by Meg Nola
Biblical history stretching from Abraham to Jesus is covered and editorialized upon in "In the Shadow of the Most High", a sweeping, personalized text that also considers Jewish-Christian relations in modernity. Spanning from biblical...
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...
