Title/Author: We, the Survivors by Tan Twan Eng Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux In a nutshell (Publisher): Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a…
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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,…
