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Category Archives: Contemporary fiction

Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce

February 27, 2021

London, 1950: Miss Margery Benson, age 46, has decided to ditch her dull teaching job and follow her youthful dream …

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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors

February 3, 2021

translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra A challenging book. I’m not sure that I really understood it—or if understanding …

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Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

January 24, 2021

I’ve always thought that one phase of life I’d not willingly re-visit is junior high—today’s middle school. Plunging into Jason …

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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

November 7, 2020

I felt an immediate connection to Transcendent Kingdom when I read the epigraph, taken from one of my favorite poems, …

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Young Adults

October 27, 2020

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier Thanks to the algorithms …

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The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey

October 25, 2020

Were teenagers in 1999 more composed, kind, contemplative, and devoted to family? That is, before computers, phones, and social media …

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Sisters by Daisy Johnson

October 11, 2020

I read Sisters in the span of a few hours. I’m not sure that was the best way to have …

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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

November 14, 2019

The best book I’ve read in 2019 (so far, anyway). Strout’s stories are about individuals who are old, sick, damaged, …

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Arcadia by Iain Pears

June 26, 2016

I loved Arcadia; it’s my favorite book of 2016 (so far, anyway). It encompasses time travel, history/alt-history, romance, clever literary …

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Fallen Fret by Ray Richard

June 15, 2016

I’m as guilty as the next reader of drifting into ruts, defaulting too often to the same genres, settings, and …

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