This is a huge book, both in size (597 pages) and in its examination of what it means to be in relationship with...
DebraSeptember 1, 2025
This novel is about an Irish family of four who are under stress following the 2008 financial crisis. They are doing dumb and...
DebraSeptember 1, 2025
Ann Naplitano’s novel has sentences in it that I read over and over, before re-immersing myself in the drama of four sisters. It...
DebraAugust 1, 2025
Greta grew up in the shadow of her distant, distracted mother. Then she fell in love with a man who turned out to...
DebraSeptember 6, 2023
This novel begins in Sri Lanka, with a young woman about to meet a man through a matchmaking service. Her family have initiated...
DebraSeptember 6, 2023
In her early twenties Teresa was drifting along after finishing her marketing degree, working at a hotel and trying to get a stationery...
DebraSeptember 6, 2023
Yasmin Ghorami is getting married … which involves her Indian parents having dinner with her fiance’s rich, feminist, out-there mother in North London....
DebraSeptember 5, 2023
This rural crime novel is set in the small town of Nannine, in rural Australia. A twin sister went missing from a farm...
DebraSeptember 5, 2023
The towering personality in this novel is Agnes Lee. She is like a tall 80-year-old tree in her beloved Sank (sanctuary) filled with...
DebraApril 23, 2023
Every sentence is smooth and enticing, and so I follow Jennifer Egan into the candy house of all the free things and opportunities...
DebraFebruary 14, 2023
