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Ginseng Roots: A Memoir
by Craig Thompson
Leave the story, take the art (4/13/2025)
GINSENG ROOTS is ostensibly about Craig Thompson's unusual childhood job: For ten summers, forty hours a week, he, along with his brother, sister, and mom, harvested ginseng in their small town of Marathon, Wisconsin. China, Korea, and many other Asian countries prizemore
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
A Hilariously Absurd Premise Drives a Winning Lightweight Mystery (6/25/2024)
Meet Pony. Once owned and beloved by Penny, Pony got sold without warning when Penny was twelve. More than two decades later, he's still bitter about it and one day runs away to find Penny and confront her.Christina Lynch's PONY CONFIDENTIAL is a funny and sometimes wrymore
Patsy: A Novel
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
A literary novel lacking feeling (6/15/2019)
Given the premise, Patsy should have been more emotionally resonant. Nicole Dennis-Benn wrote about a Jamaican immigrant's experience in America after she leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica. The relationship between the two isn't established strongly, so I didn'tmore
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