Tag: Contemporary Fiction
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Review: Stations
In Stations, two teens from troubled homes in 1980s Ireland form a bond that haunts the next 25 years. Sad and not for everyone.
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Review: The Road to Tender Hearts
A grieving lottery winner, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can sense death share a wild road trip in The Road to Tender Hearts.
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Review: Peck & Peck
Batter Gray loves poetry, and nobody thinks that’s a future. Peck & Peck lands him in a 1982 poetry journal full of feuds and secrets.
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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: 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: 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.
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Review: Under Story
Under Story braids together a mycologist who abandons her life, a reunion at the bottom of the world, and a theory about parallel universes.
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Review: Whistler
Daphne reunites with the stepfather she lost 45 years ago. A warm story of memory, second chances, and loving someone as their time runs out.
