Category: Literary Fiction
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Review: CICADA SUMMER by Maureen Leurck
Thank you so much to Maureen Leurck and Kensington for providing me with a free finished copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she’s bought and renovated since her divorce almost three…
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Review: THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY by Cherise Wolas
Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for this advance copy – all opinions are my own. Summary (from Amazon): These words are spoken to a rapturous audience by Joan Ashby, a brilliant and intense literary sensation acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. When Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she is stunned by…
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Review: EDEN by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Summary: Becca Meister Fitzpatrick―wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community―is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter’s…
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Review: SEX AND RAGE by Eve Babitz
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.” Summary: We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She’s a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man…
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Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE by Matthew J. Sullivan
Summary (from Amazon): When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among…
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Review: WHITE FUR by Jardine Libaire
Summary: When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn’t graduate from high school; Jamey is…