Mermaid Confidential hardly has a discernable plot, but it is clear that Serge A. Storms […]
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Trust by Hernan Diaz
In Trust, a novel by Hernan Diaz, the story of a depression-era financial baron, Andrew […]
THE SHIPPING NEWS By E. Annie Proulx
Quoyle, the protagonist of The Shipping News, is a lonely misfit who suffers many misfortunes […]
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
I don’t usually choose science fiction as a genre. However, this novel came to my […]
The Netanyahus By Joshua Cohen
The Netanyahus is a fictionalized account of an actual time in the 1950s when Benzion […]
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Moses Herzog is a former professor of romanticism, and he is in the midst of […]
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
With so many people recording their thoughts and actions on social media, Jennifer Egan takes […]
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The word darkness is found about 45 times in this novel, which is the primary […]
French Braid by Anne Tyler
I love Anne Tyler’s characters and stories about human relationships. Though her books have gotten […]
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney brings “torn between two lovers” to a new level. The first person narrator, […]