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BookBrowse Reviewer Kelly is a BookBrowse Reviewer and has written reviews featured in The BookBrowse Review.

Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Kelly earned her master’s degree in comparative history from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where she studied camp followers, the women who followed early modern armies. She enjoys reading, especially works in translation and more obscure authors, writing poetry and short stories, and creating art, much of which is inspired by what she reads. She recently started an MS in Library Science and hopes to investigate the potential for the use of archives and digital humanities in dealing with anthropogenic climate change. Currently, Kelly lives in Massachusetts where she occasionally writes for a local bookstore blog, rootandpress.com.

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The Big Door Prize
by M.O. Walsh

(10/7/2020)

Instead of examining the problems of determining a person's potential via DNA analysis, the novel focuses on the emotional fallout that occurs when we feel our potential doesn't align with reality, and skirts around the idea that sometimes it takes outside permission to admit this discrepancy and do something about it. The Big Door Prize is a modern fable that explores issues of choice, personal potential and the myriad ways people go about getting what they want.

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In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena
by Ron Rash

(8/19/2020)

Ranging from the Civil War era, to the Great Depression of the early 1930s, to the 2008 financial crisis, the stories meander between time periods while always maintaining a feeling of Appalachian space and place. Rash writes varied, fully realized human beings with distinct backstories using efficient, nuanced prose. After finishing In the Valley, I was left with a delicious feeling of having survived. Rash's narratives provide just enough detail to pull you in, tumble you around a bit a

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Almond
by Won-pyung Sohn

(7/15/2020)

With its confessional tone and short chapters, the novel is diary-like, showing a record of Yunjae's daily life after the attack and his attempts to understand more about his neurodivergent brain. It seems that it is precisely because Yunjae can't recognize emotions and has had to study them that he has such a profound understanding of the rather subjective nature of the language humans use to describe feelings. This slipperiness of language, of how people describe their worlds and the ways they

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The Jane Austen Society: A Novel
by Natalie Jenner

(6/3/2020)

The Jane Austen Society is a paean to the power of literature and the positive impact reading can have on us in uncertain times. In telling this fictionalized account of the founding of the real Jane Austen Society, Jenner turns a keen, almost Austenesque eye on her characters, their interpersonal relationships and English village life in the early 1940s. This is a fun, satisfying novel, full of heart and brimming with a love for all things Austen.

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Man of My Time
by Dalia Sofer

(4/22/2020)

Covering a range of decades but set against the political backdrop of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Dalia Sofer's latest novel, Man of My Time, is a quietly powerful retrospective look at the accumulation of moments and choices that form a life. Sofer's prose can at times be more telling than showing; however, overall this works for the story. She has a way of slicing right to the heart of a scene, utilizing unexpected and profound imagery that reminds me a bit of Persian poetry, in which

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