Review: Kingston, edited by Viet Thahn Nguyen, The Library of Congress – The Bicentenary year of 1976 marked Maxine Hong Kingston’s arrival on the American literary scene with the publication of her work The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award.
Loving the Dead and Gone, Judith Turner-Yamamoto, Regal House – Donald Ray Spencer dies in a car accident on a summer’s day in the early 1960s, a few days short of his first wedding anniversary.
Review: The Making of Her, Bernadette Jiwa , Dutton – Dublin, 1996: Joan Egan lives a wealthy but increasingly frustrating life in a posh suburb. Her husband Martin is subservient to his mother,
Review: Kismet, Amina Akhtar, Thomas & Mercer – New Yorker Ronnie Khan suffered years of constant physical and mental abuse from her Aunt Shameem. Orphaned at an early age, Ronnie became a slave to the woman …
Review: The Big Dark Sky, Dean Koontz, Thomas & Mercer – Joanna Chase had an idyllic childhood growing up on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana.
Review: West Side Love Story, Priscilla Oliveras, Montlake – Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet takes on a happier, contemporary Southwestern twist in Priscilla Oliveras’ West Side Love Story. Two rival families–the Capuletas and the Monteros–have feuded for almost a generation.
Review: Ben and June seem to have an ideal marriage, yet there’s trouble in paradise.
Our Little World, Karen Winn, Dutton Books – Summer 1985: Audrina and Borka “Bee” Kocsis live in Hammond, an ordinary small New Jersey town.
Book Review: Strangers We Know, Elle Marr, Thomas & Mercer – Ivy Hon knows she was adopted. Her birth mother gave her up at only a few days old, but aside from the fact she’s of Chinese-American extraction, Ivy knows little else.
Karitas Untitled, Kristin Baldursdottir, Amazon Crossing – Karitas Jónsdóttir is the youngest daughter of Steinunn Ólafsdóttir, a hardworking widow with two other daughters and three sons. Life on their western Icelandic farm is hard.
