Yelena Furman, Book Reviewer

Book Review

Signos

by Yelena Furman

The human and spirit worlds exist in close proximity in Signos: A Fiction Anthology of Filipino Supernatural, with stories written in English as well as translated from several languages of the Philippines. Noting the suppression of... Read More

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If the Owl Calls

by Yelena Furman

A detective in Norway investigates a murder case in Sharon White’s atmospheric novel "If the Owl Calls". In 1979, Hans, an Oslo detective, grieves his wife’s recent death. He is assigned a case in the remote north, home of the... Read More

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The Nameless Dead

by Yelena Furman

An admirable police chief does his best to defend vulnerable migrants in the timely mystery novel "The Nameless Dead". On a Greek island, a police inspector works to solve the murders of Syrian women at a refugee camp in Leta Serafim’s... Read More

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Hereafter

by Yelena Furman

Two souls from different earthly eras make their way toward eternal life together in the sweet novel "Hereafter". A man learns to navigate the afterlife in Jackson Eaton’s inventive novel "Hereafter". Thirty-year-old Benjamin is a... Read More

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You've Told Me Before

by Yelena Furman

Well-to-do but emotionally adrift East Coasters grapple with unsatisfying marriages, generational divides, and family secrets in Jennifer Anne Moses’s short story collection You’ve Told Me Before. In one story, a seventy-year-old... Read More

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Happy New Years

by Yelena Furman

In Maya Arad’s epistolary novel "Happy New Years", an Israeli immigrant writes annual Rosh Hashanah letters to her friends back home, masking the reality of her life in the US. From 1966 to 2016, Leah writes to women from her... Read More

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Desert Rites

by Yelena Furman

The subsistence existences of those who contend with harsh environments and harsher government policies are the focus of the illuminating novel "Desert Rites". In Xuemo’s historical novel "Desert Rites", Chinese villagers struggle... Read More

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