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There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
While it is common for children of immigrants to reflect on their ancestors' struggles through literary or historical fiction, or family memoir, it is more unusual for writers to turn to speculative ...
Read ReviewDisplacement and Migration as a Theme in Speculative Fiction
In Ruben Reyes Jr.'s short story collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, speculative fiction is a way to rediscover the experiences of first- and second-generation Latinx immigrants. Alternative ...
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Elif Shafak's novel There Are Rivers in the Sky follows three disparate individuals separated by time and location. Arthur Smyth (whose full name is "King Arthur of the Sewers and Slums") is born in ...
Read ReviewCuneiform and Ashurbanipal's Library
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak begins with the story of King Ashurbanipal (c. 685–631 BCE) of Ninevah, an ancient city on the eastern bank of the Tigris in part of what is now ...
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It is January 1997 in the small town of Jericho, and Sylvia Knight has decided to end her own life. She's already died once before—two years previous, a hit-and-run took her husband Christopher ...
Read ReviewComet Hale-Bopp and the Heaven's Gate Cult
A central event in Ruby Todd's debut novel, Bright Objects, is the sighting of a comet in the atmosphere. Comet St. John appears in January of 1997 over Sylvia's small town in Australia, causing ...
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Written by Wen-yi Lee, The Dark We Know comes to us from Gillian Flynn Books, so it seems appropriate that there's more than a hint of Flynn's own Camille Preaker in Lee's troubled protagonist, ...
Read ReviewWhat does one name a fictional small town that once served as a hub for slate mining before its inevitable decline? Well, Slater, of course. In her novel The Dark We Know, Wen-yi Lee describes it ...
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At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his early forties, is stricken with acute abdominal pain. The COVID pandemic is raging and he's reluctant to...
Read ReviewIn Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the unnamed protagonist—facing a difficult and uncertain medical diagnosis—finds solace in a poem by the poet George Oppen. The poem is only a ...
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In November 1957, Kathleen and Virgil Beckett are living at Acropolis Place, an apartment complex in Newark, Delaware, an arrangement that was supposed to be temporary after their move from Rhode ...
Read ReviewThough the story unfolds largely through flashbacks, the present-day events of The Most occur on November 3, 1957, which is the day the Soviet Union launched its satellite Sputnik 2 into space. ...
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by Syou Ishida
Discover the bestselling Japanese novel celebrating the healing power of cats.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Lisa See's latest historical novel, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China.
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