Family Life

Book Review: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin

The novel is strongest in its depiction of the day-to-day living with a person suffering from Alzheimer’s. An undignified way…

3 years ago

Book Review: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

A struggling writer finds himself teaching a third-rate MFA program in Vermont, finds himself harrassed for stealing a dead student's…

3 years ago

Book Review: How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were is, in a word, fatalistic. The villagers are fighting a lost cause,– The David vs. Goliath…

3 years ago

Book Review: Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina

Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina is a novel about a Tartar widow who has been exiled to Siberiawinner of the Yasnaya…

5 years ago

Book Review: The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King

Italy around the middle 1500s. Master chef Bartolomeo Scappi died and leaves his wealth, knowledge and even name to Giovanni,…

5 years ago

Book Review: The General’s Cook by Ramin Ganeshram

A historical fiction book taking place in 1793, following the life of Hercules, a slave in Mt. Vernon, as well…

5 years ago

Book Review: Family Trust by Kathy Wang

Stanley Huang has claimed for years that he is very rich. Now that Stanley Huanghas pancreatic cancer his family wants…

6 years ago

Book Review: America for Beginners by Leah Franqui

The book shows us the same traveling experience through three sets of eyes, Mrs. Sengupta, Satya, and the American Rebecca…

6 years ago

Book Review: so much for that by Lionel Shriver

Shep worked hard to retire in a country where his money could last him forever. When Glynis, Shep’s wife, gets…

13 years ago

Book Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

This is a delightful book and I thought it was thoroughly entertaining. Neil Gaiman has been writing modern fairy tales…

13 years ago

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