A Daughter Unearths And Remembers Trauma In 'Memorial Drive'
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores the relationship between trauma, agency, and voice as she helps her murdered mother tell the story of her killing by Trethewey's stepfather.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Cartoonist Adrian Tomine's Self-Deprecating, Self-Aware Humor Shines In Memoir
In framing Tomine's life trajectory via professional and personal setbacks and moments of mortification, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist becomes mesmerizing, funny, and deeply honest.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
A Guide to Nordic Noir
Want to read something cold and dark on a hot summer day? We’ve got recommendations.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Bring Your Flamethrower. In This Novel, Art Feels the Burn.
In “Alice Knott,” Blake Butler tells a twisting story in which famous paintings are destroyed and a woman wrestles with the elusive memories of her past.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Yearning for the Unexplained
Colin Dickey talks about “The Unidentified,” and Miles Harvey discusses “The King of Confidence.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Novels of Suspense and Isolation
Riley Sager’s “Home Before Dark,” Anna Downes’s “No Safe Place” and Eve Chase’s “The Daughters of Foxcote Manor.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
When a Bookish Girl’s Imagination (Truly!) Takes Flight
With nods to Narnia, Hogwarts, E. Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hilary McKay’s “The Time of Green Magic” is a love letter to the literary canon.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Lies That Bind, and Break, a Friendship
In Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women,” three old pals find they don’t know one another quite as well as they once did. And then one of them is murdered.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Stephen King on Lauren Beukes’s ‘Splendid’ New Thriller
“Afterland,” a neo-noir, coast-to-coast chase novel, takes place after a pandemic has wiped out 99 percent of the men in the world.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New in Paperback: ‘The Memory Police’ and ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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