Title/Author: Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Publisher: Knopf In a nutshell: One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls–sisters, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community,…
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Jee reviews #Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn @ndennis_benn @LiverightPub #literaryFiction #LGBTfiction @DBookFestival #dbf2019
Title/Author: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn Publisher: Liveright Pub In a nutshell (Publisher): A beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration, and the sacrifices we make in the name of love from award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn. When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished…
Jee reviews #TheAtlasofRedsandBlues by @DevisLaskar @CounterpointLLC #biographicalfiction #fiction Looking forward to meeting her at the @DBookFestival #dbf2019 !!
Title/Author: The Atlas of Blues and REds by Devi S Laskar Publisher: Counterpoint LLC In a nutshell (Publisher): When a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades,…
Jee reviews #LittleFiresEverywhere by #CelesteNg #RandomHouse #literaryfiction #familylifefiction #asianAmericanLitFiction
Title/Author: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Publisher: Random House In a nutshell (Amazon): From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything…
Jee’s #bookreview of #WomenTalking by Miriam Toews #BloomsburyUSA #womensfiction #NetGalley #eARC
Title: Women Talking by Miriam Toews Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Verdict: 3/5 Publication day: Apr 2, 2019 In a nutshell (Publisher): One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been…
Jee’s #bookreview of #TheDreamers by Karen Thompson Walker #RandomHouse #literaryfiction #netgalley #eARC #UNPOPULARopinion
Title: The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House Verdict: 3.5/5 Publication date: Jan 15, 2019 In a nutshell (Publisher): One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her…
Jee’s #bookreview of #OnceUponARiver by #DianeSetterfield @DianeSetterfie1 #NetGalley #AtriaBooks #eARC #literaryfiction
Title: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Publisher: Atria Books Verdict: 5/5 Publication day: Dec 04, 2018 In a nutshell (Publisher): On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on…
Jee’s #bookreview of #WhereTheCrawdadsSing by #DeliaOwens @PutnamBooks
ETitle: Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Publisher: Putnam Books Verdict: 5/5 In a nutshell (Amazon): For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But…
Jee’s #bookreview of #TheWomanInTheWindow by A. J. Finn #WMmorrowBooks #psychologicalthriller *Warning* #UNPOPULARopinio
Title: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn Publisher: William Morrow Verdict: 3/5 In a nutshell (Amazon): For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful…
Jee’s #bookreview of #AnAbsolutelyRemarkableThing by Hank Green #PenguinUSA @DuttonBooks #fiction #scifi *WARNING* #UNPOPULARopinion (Please don’t hate me)
Title: A Truly Remarkable Thing by Hank Green Publisher: Penguin USA [Dutton] Verdict: 3/5 In a nutshell (Amazon): In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she’s part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have…
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