First Impressions readers enjoyed being transported to India via Thrity Umrigar's novel Honor, with 36 out of 38 rating the book four or five stars. What it's about: Smita—a Mumbai native ...
Read ReviewEscalating Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India
At the time of the partition in 1947, what was once the British colony of India was split, separating the predominantly Hindu Dominion of India (modern-day Republic of India) from the predominantly ...
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What Storm, What Thunder illuminates life in Haiti during and after the massive earthquake on January 12, 2010. Later called the 'Event,' or 'Douz' (the number 12 in Haitian Creole), it took more than...
Read ReviewIn the back matter of What Storm, What Thunder, author Myriam J. A. Chancy cites paintings by Trinidadian artist LeRoy Clarke (who passed away in July 2021) as a major inspiration for her novel. ...
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Noor's heroine goes by the moniker AO. Though officially this stands for her given name, Anwuli Okwudili, to her it has always meant Artificial Organism; a reflection of the self she has spent years ...
Read ReviewThe Life Changing Reality of Bionic Limbs
The protagonist of Nnedi Okorafor's novel Noor has undergone a number of procedures and augmentations to reduce her physical discomfort and improve her standard of living. Born with missing and ...
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Lily King's two recent novels Euphoria and Writers & Lovers could hardly be more different: one has anthropologists doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s and the other is about a grief-...
Read ReviewContemporary New England Fiction Writers and Their Work
The stories in Lily King's Five Tuesdays in Winter include settings in Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, three of the six northeastern states of the USA that are collectively known as New England (the...
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Ken Follett's thriller Never outlines a chillingly possible path to World War III. Fifty-year-old Pauline Green is in the third year of her first term as President of the United States when a ...
Read ReviewMuch of Ken Follett's novel Never is set in present-day Chad, a landlocked nation located in north-central Africa. Officially known as The Republic of Chad, at 496,000 square miles, the country is the...
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'…she and I became as close as fish and the water in which they swim, no secret too intimate for us to share.' The narrator of Lucy Jago's A Net for Small Fishes is the witty and ...
Read ReviewSumptuary Laws in Early Modern England
The heroine of Lucy Jago's A Net for Small Fishes, Anne Turner, has a unique claim to fame: she holds the patent for the saffron-yellow starch that is taking the Jacobean fashion world by storm. ...
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My Broken Language
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
A Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright tells her lyrical coming of age story in a sprawling Puerto Rican family.
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