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** Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky
Having loved The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, I read Broken Glass Park with high expectations, and I was mostly satisfied — but also curious to see how the two heroines, one a manipulative grandmother (in the former), the … Continue reading
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** The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a novel and not a mathematical treatise, as the title suggests, but it does not make for an easy read. The two protagonists are scarred by childhood mishaps, one a serious accident, but apparently … Continue reading
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Cherry by Mary Karr
I picked up Cherry after having read Mary Karr’s other memoirs, Lit (or her as an adult) and The Liar’s Club (of her fractured young childhood). In this book, she describes her teenage years, which seems to have consisted of … Continue reading
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Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
Lost in the Forest is the story of a familywhose father dies accidentally, which brings his stepdaughters closer to their dad, and one of them into a very ill-advised affair with a supposed friend of the family. It’s all very … Continue reading
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Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
Miles from Nowhere is a tough, hard novel about a teenage runaway who goes through all the trials we’re afraid teenage runaways must go through: she gets beaten up; she sleeps on the street; she sleeps in abandoned apartments or … Continue reading
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More than you Know by Beth Gutcheon
More Than You Know is the account of two doomed love stories taking place in the same Maine village a hundred years apart, the more recent story featuring a ghost from the first one, a ghost that is visible only to … Continue reading
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Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
Gardens of Water is a doomed love story between a convervative Turkish very young woman and an American teenager whose father has served as a school principal and aid worker in Turkey for many years. Despite valiant efforts to make it … Continue reading
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses are the memories of a 60-something who settles in an isolated farm after his wife’s death after a life in the city. The farm is close to where he spent summers with his father shortly after WWII, … Continue reading
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Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
Having read and loved The Love Wife by the same author, I picked up Mona in the Promised Land for another long plane ride and I wasn’t disappointed, although the depth and complexity of The Love Wife is simply not there. … Continue reading
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