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Category Archives: Literary Fiction
Review: Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 20, 2015) ISBN: 9781476755670 Source: Publisher When Otto awakens one morning, he finds the following note from Etta, his eighty-three year old wife: I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone … Continue reading
Review: The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach
Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (October 14, 2014) ISBN: 9781616203313 Source: Personal copy When Eric, a small town lawyer in Maine, hears a prediction for a “storm of the century,” he closes his office early and heads to the grocery … Continue reading
Posted in Algonquin Books, Literary Fiction, Review
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Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (September 9, 2014) ISBN: 9780385353304 Source: Publisher A famous stage actor, Arthur Leander, dies of a heart attack on stage. A former paparazzi, now EMT, leaps to the stage in an attempt to save … Continue reading
Posted in Knopf, Literary Fiction, Review
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Review: The Death of Lucy Kyte by Nicola Upson
Series: Josephine Tey Mysteries Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (June 10, 2014) ISBN-13: 978-0062195456 Source: Publisher Josephine Tey, a well known British mystery author, learns she has inherited a cottage from a godmother she knew very little about. … Continue reading
Review: A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Harper (June 3, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062287877 Source: Publisher Slava Gelman is a lapsed Jew working for Century, an esteemed magazine in Manhattan. He’s exiled himself from his family in an attempt to shed the history and … Continue reading
Review: The Headmaster’s Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (February 25, 2014) ISBN-10: 1250038944 Source: Publisher Being a headmaster is in Arthur Winthrop’s genes. Like his father before him, he serves as the headmaster of Lancaster School, an elite private school in … Continue reading
Review: The Martian by Andy Weir
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Crown (February 11, 2014) ISBN-10: 0804139024 Source: Publisher Mark Watney is one of several astronauts making up the crew of the Ares 3 mission to Mars. Just days into their mission, the Acidalia region is hit … Continue reading
Posted in Crown Publishers, Literary Fiction, Review, Science Fiction, Thriller
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Review: What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062237845 Source: Publisher Olivia Reed didn’t have the most stable of childhoods. Her older sisters, twins, were stillborns who died a year before Olivia was born and are forever memorialized by … Continue reading
Posted in Harper Books, Literary Fiction, Review
Tagged bipolar disorder, forgiveness, guilt, mother-daughter relationships
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Review: Adé: A Love Story by Rebecca Walker
Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (October 29, 2013) ISBN-10: 054414922X Source: Publisher A nineteen-year-old college student and her friend, Miriam, embark on a trip to Africa. The unnamed narrator’s life is forever altered upon arriving in … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Fiction, Little A / New Harvest, Review
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Review: The Returned by Jason Mott
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0778315339 Source: Publisher In 1966, Harold and Lucille Hargrave’s son died at his eighth birthday party. Now in their seventies, their lives have resumed without him, filled with loss and … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Fiction, Mira Books, Paranormal Fiction, Review
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