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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
by Peter Andreas
Motherhood as rebellion (8/16/2017)
No matter where you fall on whether you think Carol Andreas was a good mother or not, you will be forced to examine motherhood as an institution and what constitutes a happy childhood. Because Peter Andreas ends up happy and fulfilled with a career and a family and a stablemore
The Heart's Invisible Furies: A Novel
by John Boyne
A coming of all ages story (6/29/2017)
To call The Heart's Invisible Furies a coming-of-age novel would be selling it short. Sweeping in scope, it is Cyril Avery's "coming of all ages" story. Cyril is many things: a boy with a secret, an adolescent dealing with desires he has no idea how to reconcile with themore
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Life in Death (4/19/2017)
Just brilliant. I was skeptical at first because the structure of the novel is so unconventional (in the best way), but I believe the narrative carries you until you catch up and then you are just swept up. I was sobbing by the end. I will recommend it to everyone who willmore
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Wow (2/5/2013)
Wow, wow, wow! Did I mention wow? At first I thought I was going to have trouble with the book, that the moving back and forth in time, between different realities, would be confusing, instead I was absolutely captivated. I let go of trying to track narrative threads andmore
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