Tag: coming of age fiction
AUTHORLINK TALK: EGYPTIAN TEENS DEAL WITH LIFE IN AMERICA
by Diane Slocum | Nov 1, 2023 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
Interiew: Between Two Moons, Aisha Abdel Gawad, Doubleday – Amira and Lina are teen-age twin sisters about to graduate from high school in the Arab American enclave of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.
Read MoreAuthorlink Talk: Herman Writes to Discover What Happens Next
by Ellen Birkett Morris | Jun 1, 2023 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
The Kudzu Queen, Mimi Herman , Regal House – In Mimi Herman’s The Kudzu Queen, 15-year-old Mattie experiences first love, social inequities, and her best friend’s tragedy all while confronting James R. Cullowee, the “Kudzu King,” whose true character is slowly revealed.
Read MoreAuthorlink Talk: Tragedies Force Woman to Find Resilience
by Diane Slocum | Jun 1, 2023 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
Go as a River, Shelley Read, Speigel & Graus – A chance meeting on a street corner changes the course of 17-year-old Victoria Nash’s life. Wilson Moon, a young Native American, has just drifted into the small Colorado farming town of Iola near where Victoria’s family grows their famous Nash peaches.
Read MoreReview: A Likely Story by Leigh Abramson
by Cindy Matthews | Nov 28, 2022 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Review: A Likely Story, Leigh Abramson, Atria Books – From an early age Isabelle Manning knew she would be a writer. Her father, Ward Manning, is an award-winning, New York Times best-selling author, the darling and doyen of the New York intelligentsia.
Read MoreInterview: The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
by Anna Roins | Oct 1, 2022 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
The Sign for Home, Blair Fell, Atria – When THE SIGN FOR HOME was still in manuscript form, it won the prestigious Doris Lippman Prize for Fiction at the City College of New York.
Read MoreBook Review: When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff
by Kate Padilla | Apr 11, 2022 | Book Reviews | 0 |
When We Were Bright and Beautiful, Jillian Medoff, Harper Collins – Jillian Medoff delves into the perilous subjects of pornography, consent and sexual assault in her suspenseful novel, “When We Were Bright and Beautiful
Read MoreBook Review: Our Little World by Karen Winn
by Cindy Matthews | Apr 11, 2022 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Our Little World, Karen Winn, Dutton Books – Summer 1985: Audrina and Borka “Bee” Kocsis live in Hammond, an ordinary small New Jersey town.
Read MoreReview: A Train to Moscow by Elena Gorokhova
by Kate Padilla | Jan 31, 2022 | Book Reviews | 2 |
Review: A Train to Moscow, Elena Gorokhova, Lake Union – Elena Gorokhova, author of two memoirs on her life under Soviet rule and her subsequent migration to the United States, again reflects on her past in a new novel, “A Train to Moscow.”
Read MoreInterview: Jacquelyn Mitchard captures emotion of motherly love
by Doris Booth | Jan 1, 2022 | Featured, Interviews, Video | 0 |
Interview: The Good Son, Jacquelyn Mitchard – New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard talks to Authorlink about her latest book, THE GOOD SON (Mira Books, January 2022).
Read MoreReview: The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
by Cindy Matthews | Jul 1, 2021 | Book Reviews | 0 |
The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni, Lake Union – Vincent Bianco graduated from high school in 1979. A typical youngster on the verge of adulthood, he wants some fun in his last summer before starting college.
Read MoreInterview: Impersonation Gets Complicated in The Summer Job
by Diane Slocum | Jun 1, 2021 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
The Summer Job, Lizzy Dent, G P. Putnam Sons – In her 30s, Elizabeth “Birdy” Finch is at loose ends and doesn’t know where to turn next. Her friend, Heather, has problems of her own, but at least she has a career as a top-notch sommelier.
Read MoreInterview: Orthodox Debut Novel Brings Wonder and Tragedy
by Diane Slocum | Feb 1, 2021 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
The Orchard, David Hopen, Ecco – Ari Eden spent his life in Brooklyn attending a Jewish school that focused on religion until just before his senior year.
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