betrayal

1 min read 2021-11-24 23:12:21

Never Open It: The Taboo Trilogy by Ken Niimura, translated by Stephen Blanford [in Booklist]

*STARRED REVIEW Three ancient, traditional Japanese myths get fabulously, subversively transformed in Tokyo-based, Spanish Japanese graphic creator

1 min read 2021-11-24 01:06:48

JUNE: Driving across the country with my kids in the back seat, I had a lot of time to think. On a particularly long stretch of interstate, somewhere

1 min read 2021-11-18 23:12:00

An 1892 “emancipated duel” between two women is about to take place as the overseeing (female) doctor drolly remarks, “we will never be

1 min read 2021-11-15 23:12:17

*STARRED REVIEW Covering most of the 20th century across the Korean peninsula, Juhea Kim’s debut novel wondrously reveals broken families and

1 min read 2021-11-11 23:12:11

In her first book in a dozen years, Lan Samantha Chang (All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, 2010) – the first woman and first Asian American

1 min read 2021-10-22 23:18:00

Genre: Realistic Fiction Number of pages: 326 Kira was left to fend for herself in the woods as a child until Cady Bennett and one of her search and

1 min read 2021-10-21 22:12:08

Margarita’s fifty-sixth birthday begins with suspicion of her husband’s infidelities and ends with his WhatsApp declaration, “I love you and

1 min read 2021-10-12 22:12:22

Elinor Hanson, her name not quite matching her mixed-race visage, has 10 days to prove herself worthy of an assignment for the prestigious Standard

1 min read 2021-10-09 01:54:00

Genre: Mystery/Suspense Number of Pages: 258 Bridget and her mom were both huge fans of RM Haldon’s fantasy series. They were frequently read it

1 min read 2021-10-07 22:12:03

*STARRED REVIEW At a mere 160 pages, Miléna Babin’s The Strange Scent of Saffron might seem spare, but its sizable cast and numerous

1 min read 2021-10-06 22:12:48

*STARRED REVIEW Casey Plett’s second collection, after A Safe Girl to Love and the novel Little Fish – both Lambda Award winners – once

1 min read 2021-10-05 22:12:27

What happens in The Days of Afrekete, the second novel by Asali Solomon (Disgruntled), takes just an evening: Liselle Belmont prepares for and

1 min read 2021-10-04 22:12:44

Journalist/artist/activist Ari Honarvar’s promising debut, A Girl Called Rumi, memorializes the lifesaving power of storytelling through the

1 min read 2021-10-01 22:12:39

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout has the remarkable ability to engage audiences immediately with just a few opening sentences. Her marvelous

1 min read 2021-09-29 22:12:52

Ava Simon’s life might seem, well … predictable: “She liked to think of each day as a series of efficiently divided thirty-minute units.”