More than a hundred pages in, I was still struggling to remember who is who, even though there are not that many protagonists or characters. The novel is supposed to be a tale of three generations of female Puerto Ricans,...
This is one of those novels that are told in parallel timelines, with one in the mid 1850s, of the potato famine in Ireland, and the other is the current day timeline in New York. The protagonist of the mid-1850s...
There is seemingly no way to review this book without spoilers, so I apologise and caution readers in advance, that if you do not want a spoiler, please stop reading the review now! The book is not a work of...
A seriously compelling read, one of those you can barely stand to have to put the book down to attend to life. The quality of the storytelling is what makes this novel so unput-down-able, as well as its characters whom...
Overdone Swedish Satire
Culture Clash Cliches
On the Cusp of Change
A nuanced exploration of race and feminism
Forty Years Later
Foul Play in a Pristine Hotel
Small Town Tensions
Surgery under fire
Separated sisters “are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite sides of a pond”
Outsidership, through the prism of friendship
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