Nell Freudenberger

Things Fall Apart

~ The Limits, by Nell Freudenberger ~ Penguin Random House, 2024. Nell Freudenberger’s Lucky Girls was a wonderful collection of short stories (see Reeta’s review), but it’s a big step from short stories to a full-length novel, and not every...

Lucky Girls, lucky reader

Here are five stories, set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent-each one bearing the weight and substance of a short novella-narrated by young women who find themselves, often as expatriates, face to face with the compelling circumstances of...