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Review: The Children by Melissa Albert
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An intoxicating, haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, contend with the … Continue reading
Review: Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a … Continue reading
Review: House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Buy Here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help … Continue reading
Review: Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr , Lincoln , and the National Book Award-winning United States . With a new introduction by Camille Paglia “I am … Continue reading
Review: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our … Continue reading
Review: Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Simón López Trujillo’s “mind-blowing” (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts … Continue reading
Review: I Met Someone by Bruce Wagner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An emotional thriller by novelist Bruce Wagner, I Met Someone is the story of a fictional Hollywood marriage on the precipice of disaster—and an enthralling meditation on the world in which we live.Bruce Wagner’s I Met Someone is … Continue reading
Review: Superstars by Ann Scott
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a tender and combative portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the 90s — for fans of Virginie Despentes and Gary Indiana. … Continue reading
Review: Molka by Monika Kim
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: molka (n): the Korean term for spy cameras secretly and illegally installed, often to capture voyeuristic images and videos Dahye can’t believe her luck when she finds herself in a whirlwind romance with handsome, … Continue reading
Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Buy it now Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is … Continue reading
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