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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's outstanding fourth novel is narrated by a self-described nameless woman, originally from the City of Kings (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe). As the story opens, she's traveled to the "New ...
Read ReviewThe Influence of King Solomon's Mines on The Creation of Half-Broken People
King Solomon's Mines, a novel by H. Rider Haggard, is referenced throughout Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's African gothic historical fiction work The Creation of Half-Broken People. After Henry ...
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Single mother Joannie is finally putting herself out there. She's on her first date since her divorce several years earlier, eating dinner with fellow single parent Johnny in his backyard, when a ...
Read ReviewThe novel Hot Air begins with a hot air balloon falling from the sky into a backyard pool. Hot air balloons have a long history dating back to the eighteenth century, significantly predating the ...
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Twenty-year-old Ismael Reyes is making a living in Miami as an impersonator of the rapper/singer Pitbull when he receives a cease-and-desist letter from the entertainer's lawyers. In search of a new ...
Read ReviewIn Say Hello to My Little Friend, main character Izzy Reyes traveled by raft from Cuba to the United States in 2003 at age seven with his mother, who drowned during the trip. It is mentioned in ...
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After 500 years, Tudor history has every right to be stale. Its cut-throat court politics have been hashed and rehashed by novelists, poets, and playwrights since Henry VIII was still picking wives. ...
Read ReviewIn Jo Harkin's new novel The Pretender, Lambert Simnel—a long-shot hopeful for the English throne—is taken to raise an army in the English Pale in Ireland, the last Tudor stronghold on...
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez is an established author of historical novels, including Take My Hand, previously reviewed by our First Impressions readers and voted a BookBrowse Top 20 title of 2022. Reviewers ...
Read ReviewHappy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, which follows a group of formerly enslaved people who build a self-sustaining community on a mountainous plot of land in the Carolinas during the Reconstruction...
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Six chapters into the titular "novel" of Torrey Peters' collection Stag Dance, a big, burly lumberjack named Babe working in an illegal logging camp in early 20th-century Montana becomes annoyed when ...
Read ReviewGender Fluidity and Trans Identity in the Old West
The titular 'novel' from Torrey Peters' book Stag Dance takes place in an illegal logging camp in early 1900s Montana. During a cold and lonely winter, the lumberjacks there hold a dance, with some ...
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Serial Killer Games
by Kate Posey
A morbidly funny and emotionally resonant novel about the ways life—and love—can sneak up on us (no matter how much pepper spray we carry).
The Seven O'Clock Club
by Amelia Ireland
Four strangers join an experimental treatment to heal broken hearts in Amelia Ireland's heartfelt debut novel.
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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Praised by Parade and The New York Times Book Review, this debut features a 1960s scientist turned TV cooking star.
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