Ike Randolph, Black ex-con, and Buddy Lee Jenkins, white ex-con, develop an unlikely friendship after […]
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A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor is known for writing in Southern Gothic tradition. The subject matter she chooses […]
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Unlikely Animals takes place in the fictional Everton, New Hampshire, loosely based on the real […]
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Hell of a Book alternates between two main stories. A nameless Black author tells his […]
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Cal and Beth Jarrett are an ordinary couple raising two children. One son drowned while […]
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Amelia Wright likes animals more than people. As in the screenplays he writes, Adam Wright […]
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney says that her characters sacrifice themselves to love others. In reading about Marianne […]
The Stranger in the Lifeboat By Mitch Albom
This sappy story provides little character development and further promulgates the chasms between rich and […]
Quicksand by Nella Larson
“Always she had wanted, not money, but the things which money could give, leisure, attention, […]
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Monique Grant is a journalist of little renown until the glamorous movie star Evelyn Hugo […]