1. The BookBrowse Book Club Please join us to discuss...  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover (Aug 2016), 320 pages
From the jacket: From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey-hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. More about this book | Join the discussion
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 2. Editor's Choice  The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
Hardcover (Oct 2016), 368 pages BookBrowse Rating: 5/5, Critics' Consensus: 4.4/5 Buy at Amazon | B&N | IndieReview by Rory Aronsky Review: There's a scene late in The Wangs vs. the World, Jade Chang's spectacular first novel, involving Andrew, one of three financially fallen children of former cosmetics titan Charles Wang, which perfectly encapsulates Chang's writing style and the heights to which it soars. In New Orleans, after a few tumultuous days on the road in a rapidly aging powder-blue Mercedes with his father Charles, his stepmother Barbra, and his teenage sister Grace, Andrew begins his third live open-mic performance (he was drunk during his second, and we don't talk about the first disaster in Austin, Texas) espousing the differences between Asians, asserting all the while that there are absolutely no differences between white people, no matter their nationalities. Having powered through that material, he realizes that it's time to be truly honest - about his trying past few days, about his romantic ideals, about his family, about everything. There's no anger, no rancor, no animosity. It's a gentle, piercing truth... continuedFull access to our reviews & beyond the book articles are for members only. But there are always four free Editor's Choice reviews and beyond the book articles available.
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 4. Beyond the Book From Facebook Dabbler to Memoirist  Every time we review a book we also explore a related topic. Here is a recent "beyond the book" article by Kim Kovacs for Love Warrior: Beyond the Book: Glennon Doyle Melton started her writing career in 2009. Badly needing a break one day, the stay-at-home mother of three turned to Facebook, where she noticed several of her friends were participating in a series of posts called "25 Things About Me." She immediately began sharing incredibly honest and personal tidbits about herself: "I'm a recovering food and alcohol addict, but I still find myself missing food and booze in the same twisted way someone can still love a person who beats them and leaves them for dead."  Within hours she got dozens of comments from both friends and strangers offering her words of support and affirmation. She realized that she had struck a chord-that none of her fellow posters were digging deep and truly revealing themselves (others were posting trivia like "My favorite snack food is hummus"). Melton decided that she needed an outlet for writing truths about herself and her life - and found there was an audience for it. She made a point of posting an entry every day before waking up her children. Her writing eventually morphed into a blog, which grew steadily and today attracts over 7 million readers a week. ... continued Read this beyond the book article in full, plus the review & excerpt
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 The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson Paperback Oct 2016, 352 pages From the Jacket A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story and gods in Alabama - an emotionally resonant tale about the endurance of love and the power of stories to shape and transform our lives. Reviews"Starred Review. A searing yet ultimately uplifting look at broken people who heal themselves and each other through forgiveness, love, and the power of stories." - Kirkus "Starred Review. The story of how a hard-edged, biracial, self-sufficient divorce lawyer allows family and love back into her life after fiercely shielding herself from heartbreak for over 20 years is likely to join the author's six previous novels as a popular book club selection." - Library Journal "Jackson draws from both rural Alabama folklore and the god stories of ancient India, weaving these narratives flawlessly toward a crescendo that is straight out of an O'Connor tale - inevitable, surprising, and beautifully true in every sense of the word." - Sara Gruen, NYT bestselling author of At The Waters Edge and Water for Elephants 100 people will win a paperback copy of The Opposite of Everyone. This giveaway is open to residents of the USA only. Past Winners
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