Category: Fiction Books
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Review: Partita
A Tennessee farm girl with a gift for piano falls for a fiery activist. How much heartbreak will her dreams cost her?
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Review: American Hagwon
American Hagwon is a Korean family story about the pressure to succeed at any cost. What happens to the kids caught in between?
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Review: Switzy
Switzy is about David Hastings flying to Zurich to die. This is what happens when memory starts to fail and time runs out.
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Review: Heaven
Two bullied teens, a cruel classroom, and a stack of secret notes. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami asks if suffering can ever mean something.
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Review: Mad Mabel
At fifteen, she was convicted of murder and named Mad Mabel for life. At 81, a neighbor’s death tears open the past she tried so hard to bury.
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Review: The Pirate Queen
Women on ships bring bad luck, they say, but Grace O’Malley has the sea in her blood. In The Pirate Queen, she defies the Crown.
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Review: Sisters in Yellow
A news article reminds Hana of the woman who once took her in. Sisters in Yellow by Kawakami is a Tokyo story of money, luck, and betrayal.
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Review: Hollow Bones
Would you leave to protect your child from yourself? In Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult, a mother does, then must find a way back.
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Review: Exit Party
A party in 2031 fractures reality across multiple universes. Exit Party explores parallel versions of ourselves.
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Review: Hollywood, Ending
Hollywood, Ending is a story about actors, fame, and the debts we carry toward people we love. Does success in the spotlight come at a cost?
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Review: Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt follows a modern-day Death who sits with the dying, and somehow makes grief feel like hope.
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Review: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 traces one woman’s ordinary life backward, from motherhood to decades of injustice in how society treats women.
