Author: LindaL

I love Anne Tyler’s characters and stories about human relationships. Though her books have gotten […]

Sally Rooney brings “torn between two lovers” to a new level. The first person narrator, […]

Eight people are quarantined together in a bungalow colony outside of NYC in the Hudson […]

The narrator is consumed by the internet and speaking in disconnected tweet-like pronouncements. Her life […]

In this story, set in 1922, Mrs. Lottie Wilkins and Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot become disenchanted […]

Susan Orlean begins a journalistic investigation of an orchid thief, John Laroche. She ends up […]

I have read almost everything Lily King has written. She is a fabulously gifted writer, […]

The setting is the 1970s in suburban Chicago in New Prospect Township, and Crossroads delves […]

Josef K. is under arrest, and he doesn’t know why. He works at a bank; […]

In 1983, Toni Morrison explained in an interview with Tom LeClair that a tar baby […]