Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
Kokomo is Victoria Hannan’s debut novel set in Melbourne, Australia. Mina lives in London and is urgently called home after years abroad...
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Christina Branco
- Sep 15, 2020
- 4 min
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
A byword is commonly associated to Boy Parts, Eliza Clarke's debut novel: Northern filth. I scan my bookshelf. I look at my Goodreads...
Areeb Ahmad
- Sep 14, 2020
- 6 min
FATHER MAY BE AN ELEPHANT AND MOTHER ONLY A SMALL BASKET, BUT… BY GOGU SHYAMALA
A standard definition of caste, found on Wikipedia, is “a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary...
Admin
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
Friday Book Debrief Vol 40
Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
Courtney Dyer
- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth
When a young adolescent, Lily, goes missing one summer evening everyone is shaken by the disturbance to mundane normality. Rachel, who is...
Victoria Storm
- Sep 9, 2020
- 7 min
Pew By Catherine Lacey
Pew is what happens when you take a vague figure—genderless, young but hard to pin an exact age, racially ambiguous—and throw them into...
Karen Salgado
- Sep 8, 2020
- 4 min
The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer
The beginning of this book begins with staccato sentences that leave you stalling at every turn. Took so much effort to invest. To want...
Karla Mendez
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Luster by Raven Leilani
At times it is hard to believe that Luster is Raven Leilani’s debut novel. She writes with the confidence and flair of a seasoned...
Iva Mihalic
- Sep 5, 2020
- 4 min
The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano
The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing is without a doubt a refreshment, a story not important what about, but important how it is told. It...
Admin
- Sep 4, 2020
- 3 min
Friday Book Debrief Vol 39
This week; Emily St John Mandel, Temi Oh, Madeline Miller, Jessica Goudeau, Guadalupe Nettel, Tessa Hadley, Elena Ferranta & more.
Marian Perales
- Sep 3, 2020
- 4 min
Daddy by Emma cline
Reviews of this book suggest Cline is good at telling a dark story. I didn’t read the stories as dark tales. Men often behave badly.
Courtney Dyer
- Sep 2, 2020
- 5 min
Poly By Paul Dalgarno
Poly is a charging force on the Australian literary scene; redefining ideas of a “happy family” in a more diverse, accepting, and less...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Sep 2, 2020
- 10 min
In Conversation with Elissa R. Sloan
"I comped Cassidy Holmes to Spice Girls crossed with Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng when I pitched it."
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Sep 1, 2020
- 8 min
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and Perfect Tunes, this debut novel comes out of the gates swinging, aiming directly for your heart.
Elaine Mead
- Aug 31, 2020
- 4 min
How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
In this delightful, funny, and thought-provoking memoir, Canadian Ashley Kalagian-Blunt convinces her career-obsessed husband, Steve, to...
Jessica Maria
- Aug 29, 2020
- 2 min
Friday Book Debrief Vol 38
Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
Courtney Dyer
- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
a lonely girl is a dangerous thing by jessie tu
If you are looking for the perfect book to binge over a weekend where it is just you, takeaway, and some wine this is the one to grab....
Jessica Maria
- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
Jessica Maria's Favorite Women In Translation Books
Welcome to a celebration of translated literature by women, thanks to Women In Translation Month. August became a month dedicated to...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Aug 25, 2020
- 6 min
One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
“Trinidad likes to tout itself as this cosmopolitan melting pot, swirling with all the flavors of the race rainbow. But in fact, if...
Courtney Dyer
- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
READING IDENTITY CRISIS: Am I growing out of YA books?
In 2020 I vowed that I would only read what I really felt drawn and connected to, and if that meant deciding not to finish books simply...
Admin
- Aug 21, 2020
- 4 min
Friday Book Debrief Vol 37
This week; Toni Morrison, Tom Perrotta, Emma Cline, Ocean Vuong, Carmen Maria Machado, Hank Green, Liane Moriarty, Adania Shibli & many more
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Aug 20, 2020
- 10 min
In Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong
From October 2018 through September 2019, I was lucky enough to be taught by Lynn in Catapult’s Novel Generator class. It was a year-long...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Aug 19, 2020
- 8 min
Want by Lynn Steger Strong
If anyone, your closest friend, your mom, even a stranger, anyone, came up to you right now and asked you what you wanted more than...
Maggie Briana Chidester
- Aug 18, 2020
- 11 min
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women Of Color By Ruby Hamad
MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS THROUGHOUT THIS REVIEW: Racism, rape/sexual assault, domestic violence, colonization, exoticization, etc. You know...
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