This novel kicks off with the protagonist, Pearson, being told to take her child home from school because he used unacceptable language, namely, he said his classmate’s T-shirt was stupid – the forbidden S-word. In a dinner party that night,...
Once again like her penultimate novel, The Motion of the Body Through Space, Shriver presents us with a couple (though British this time, not American) who are in the mid-later stages of life, as our protagonists. And once again, they...
I was so pleased to begin this novel and find the protagonist is a 60 year old – Serenata, living with her 64 year old husband, Remington. Pleased because increasingly, it intrigues me to have a perspective of life from...
In We need to talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver featured a chillingly callous teenager who plans and executes a shooting at his school. Big Brother focused on an extremely obese man who is ‘eating himself to death’. So Much For...
Separated sisters “are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite sides of a pond”
Mental Illness in the Teenage Mind
Forgettable Asian-Americans
Tropical Disappointment
Dues must be paid
Contrasting Cultures
Guilt, duty, ambition, sacrifice
Singapore Ma’ams and Filipino Maids
Culture critique without nuance
From Mayur Palli to Gurgaon: Delhi’s Different Worlds
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