Tag: family

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating manages to be light and romantic, while simultaneously dealing with the issues and perspective of a culture that rarely sees the light of day in Western storytelling. The dual-perspective plot follows two Bengali (one Indian, one Bangladeshi)...

This true-crime suspense novel leaves the reader on the edge of their seat while also accurately depicting Ojibwe culture. Daunis Fontaine is the main character of the story. Daunis has never really fit in, whether on the reservation or in her hometown. However, that’s...

Title: The Forgetting Time Author: Sharon Guskin Publisher: Flatiron Books, February 2016 Summary/Review: A gripping and dramatic novel about holding on to – and letting go of – memories.  Janie is doing her best to raise her son Noah as a single mom, but...

Title:  What Alice Forgot Author:  Liane Moriarty Publisher:  Amy Einhorn Books, 2011; Penguin Audio, 2011 Summary/Review:  After taking a tumble off a spinning bike and being knocked unconscious, Alice Love awakes thinking it’s 1998 and that she’s 29 expecting her first child. What a...

Title: Did You Ever Have a Family? Author: Bill Clegg Publisher:  Gallery/Scout, September 2015 Summary/Review: Bill Clegg’s devastatingly beautiful fiction debut is portrait of a community in the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy.  June Reid, the broken woman at the epicenter of the novel,...

Title: Pretty Girls Author: Karin Slaughter Publisher: William Morrow, September 2015 *This book contains graphic descriptions of violence, particularly sexual violence against women, so be warned.* Summary/Review: I found this novel a somewhat interesting read because it describes good, bad, and even horrible relationships,...

Title: My Name is Lucy Barton  Author: Strout, Elizabeth  Publisher: Random House, January 2016 Summary/Review: Elizabeth Strout is one of the best out there when it comes to writing about flawed, complicated women.  As Lucy Barton recovers from a mysterious illness in the hospital,...

Title: The Railwayman’s Wife Author: Ashley Hay Publisher: Atria Books, April 2016 Summary/Review: A poignant, post WWII novel set in New South Wales, The Railwayman’s Wife is the type of book you wish you could step into, if just for a moment, to make...

Title: A Reunion of Ghosts Author:  Judith Claire Mitchell Publisher:  Harper, March 2015 Summary/Review:  This book is an absolute perfect balance of humor and sadness, hope and despair, blessing and curse, past and present, reason and insanity.  The story of the Alter sisters and...

Title: Dumplin’ Author: Julie Murphy Summary: Willowdean Dickson is waiting for that moment when her life will really start. Living in a small Texas town famous for it’s beauty pageant as a fat girl isn’t always easy, but Will knows that she is who...