Tag: Contemporary Fiction
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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.
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Review: This Book Made Me Think of You
A widow receives a book each month, gifts her late husband arranged before he died. A story about grief, love, and learning to live again.
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Review: The Bright Years
The Bright Years looks like a sweet love story at first, but it hides addiction, secrets, and a family falling apart underneath.
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Review: Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead, forced to grow up too fast amid poverty, addiction, and a broken foster system. A rich retelling of a Dickens classic.
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Review: And Every Morning the way Home Gets Longer
A grandfather is forgetting his memory. His son and grandson are left holding onto what’s slipping away in this short, aching book by Backman.
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Review: The Answer Is No
Meet Lucas, a man happy in his own world, until a frying pan changes everything in The Answer is No, Fredrik Backman’s witty short book.
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Review: The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories
Some people always want more from life than life will hand them. The Trouble with Happiness is about that ache, and the homes it wrecks.
