A powerful memoir about family, identity, and the lifelong search for belonging Crushed Azaleas is a deeply reflective memoir in which Amal Moulik revisits his childhood and adolescence as the son of an Indian diplomat. Growing up across Japan, India, the United Kingdom, and Italy, Moulik experienced a life of constant movement and cultural exposure. […]
A woman stands in the aisle of a hardware store outside Atlanta, five months pregnant, deciding between lengths of garden stake. She settles on five of them, two and a half feet long, and adds a rubber mallet, a tool belt, a camping lantern and an ultraviolet torch. Then she straps the belt on and […]
She is eleven. The house has run out of almost everything, so she goes down the garden to the neighbour’s coop and takes four eggs, leaving the rest. She cuts the mould off the bread instead of picking it out. She scrambles them in olive oil because there is no butter, puts half on the […]
The Confessor: A Logan Hollister Novel by Noah Christopher I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: A killer is making Los Angeles confess. The Confessor is never wrong. He has built his whole life around being sure of it. He chooses people who got away […]
Synopsis: The Crowned Flame: Illuminated Songs of Becoming What does it mean to become? Perhaps becoming is not the journey toward someone new, but the quiet return to who we have always been. The Crowned Flame: Illuminated Songs of Becoming is an illuminated Songbook of poetry, music, and art exploring ancient memory, sacred love, creative […]
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Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to seven books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. In early […]
She has been on the mountain for about an hour. Her records and her underwear are laid out on blankets in the grass like a yard sale, because everything here is shared. Then the man in the plumed hat counts her cash bill by bill, hands back exactly what she used to pay in monthly […]
He spends the morning being merciful. A young elven magistrate hears an open-and-shut poaching case, three men who freely admit to taking deer from a noble’s estate, and the sentence for that is hanging. He gives them a year in prison instead and considers himself decent for it, then buys their defence lawyer a drink […]
An exhaustive, useful study into how corporations have appropriated many aspects of the American government and how people can reclaim their power Alan Cohen is a Capitalist who believes in a government that does its utmost to help its citizens. That shouldn’t be a big ask. But this compelling book is passionately born out of […]