Yesteryear
By Caro Claire Burke ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""When they talked about stay-at-home-mothers- specifically about their stay-at-home-mothers their eyes didn't go misty with gratitude. Instead, they argued bravely that old-school femininity was a..."
The Three Graces of Pearl Street
By Elizabeth Wellington Rollins ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "" 'You're a good neighbor,' Graziella said. It was the highest compliment she could give anyone other than that they were a good parent. No one thought about neighbors anymore, which darkened her..."
Taipei Story
By R.F. Kuang ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""All you could see were the ways in which the Chinese kids were better than you: poreless, sweatless, excellent at math, skilled at weaving their bikes in and out of traffic. How cruel it was to..."
Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 ""I know who is talking what they say. That man not a bad man, even if he loves money, but he hears so many stories he don’t know what to believe. That is why he keep away.”..."
Fresh Water for Flowers
By Valerie Perrin ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""As soon as he opened his mouth, I felt solitude falling off me like dead skin. His voice seemed to shine on me, as if he had switched on a lamp above my head. Like when a day seems gloomy, and..."
Whistler
By Ann Patchett ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""There is so much randomness to youth. The person assigned to share your room becomes your friend, the girl you pass on your way out the door becomes your wife, and from these random encounters our..."
The Shrouded Queen
By Ashley Tropea ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 "” ‘Hope,’ he elaborated. ‘At its core, that’s what prayer is, right? Hope that the gods are listening. Hope that we’re not alone. Hope that they’ll help. It’s a painful thing to lose.’ “..."
John of John
By Douglas Stuart ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "”His father put all his faith in the Presbyterian penicillin. For whatever ailed you there was only one cure: work and prayer.”..."
The Midnight Train
By Matt Haig ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 "“It’s like capitalism is a bomb, isn’t it? One that creates cities then explodes then really slowly…”..."
Sorrow and Bliss
By Meg Mason ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "“It had been nearly a month, hours and hours of every day, and as though it was now her turn, my mother said, ‘Martha, no marriage makes sense. Especially not to the outside world. A marriage is..."
Land
By Maggie O’ Farrell ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "” They were here for a while, the six of them, and before them, others lived here, and before them, someone else, and now they are all gone, and whoever cut that turf is here now. After all these..."
Forgotten on Sunday
By Valerie Perrin ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""I jot down what Monsieur Geant tells me in my new notebook. Sometimes, I read it back to him. It makes him laugh. He tells me that it's as if he is listening to someone else's story, that my..."