A Tale of One January by Albert Maltz is a historical-fiction story of two women who escaped from a Nazi death March in January, 1945
I felt that the book is most poignant when the characters are interacting. The sense of desperation they feel everyday is something that’s felt on every page
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks is a well-written book. I still thinks of Mr. Hanks as a comedian, I was delighted to find out he is also a gifted writer
Ms. Allende focuses on children, and how policies of cruelty use them as pawns. Only the fact that good people have attempted to help them save those children
Hedda by Peter Haden is an enjoyable historical fiction. It is intelligent, the main characters are intriguing, and the narrative is grounded in the history
Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy (from Peter Pan’s fame) a successful businesswoman, when being associated with Peter Pan is coming back to haunt her
The Rain God by Arturo Islas is a complex and layered novel beautifully portrays family dynamics and assimilation struggles in a small immigrant town.
An unnamed narrator as she helps her editor hide from the Memory Police and cope with an Orwellian world where memories no longer exist.
The captivating richly detailed saga of three generations of a cursed South Indian family cursed for generations in Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water
A charming debut novel, about an unlikely friendship between an elderly widow and a giant Pacific octopus that will leave you surprised and delighted!