family saga

Book Review: Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

I found the book quite boring in the beginning, but the story got better when the narrative was moved from…

5 months ago

Book Review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

The highlight of the book was when it explored issues such as privilege, responsibilities, and what happens when all things…

9 months ago

Book Review: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The captivating richly detailed saga of three generations of a cursed South Indian family cursed for generations in Abraham Verghese's…

1 year ago

Book Review: Daughters of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders

The research the author did shine, and I’ve learned several things about Latvia, the region, the way Latvian Jews viewed…

2 years ago

Book Review: Forever Flora by Yuval Elbashan

An Israeli novel about a woman who finds letters her late father left her from her birth, to his death,…

3 years ago

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: Next to Love by Ellen Feldman

While this is certainly not a history book, the lives of the women follow the national struggles (civil rights for…

13 years ago

Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

The book touches on a part of American history which is rarely talked about, the internment camps built for Japanese…

13 years ago

Book Review: Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

The making of a writer. Daniel Baciagalupo and his father flee a 1950’s New Hampshire logging town after Daniel accidentally…

14 years ago

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