Indie Review: We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar We Are Lost and Found follows Michael, a junior in high school, in 1983. He is navigating his life as a “yet-to-come-out” gay teen in New York City amidst the AIDS crisis. Michael is terrified to come out to his parents because his older brother,[…]
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Indie Review: To The Top Of Greenfield Street by Ryan Standley Other books have made me laugh and cry, and To the Top of Greenfield Street did that for me. One thing I’ve never done is stop in the middle of reading and email the author to tell him how great the book is –[…]
Indie Review: The Man Who Loved His Wife by Jennifer Anne Moses Character Voices and The Secrets They Tell Jennifer Anne Moses’ has mastered the art of character voice. Everyone in her anthology The Man Who Loved His Wife is distinctly his or her own person. And the characters speak to you as you read,[…]
Indie Review: Unseen City by Amy Shearn The Past Meets the Present Shearn’s book, Unseen City, is an unexpected entry into an historical home and the contrast between life and death. Or, perhaps more fitting, the contrast between living and death. Told in 3rd person omniscient POV, Unseen City takes readers on a journey into[…]
Indie Review: Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine A Slow Burn Everything about Jessica “Jess” is a slow burn. From the way she yearns for Natasha to the lingering scent of death that she can’t escape. Jess smolders in the fire pit of life where she encounters a chorus of cicadas that threatens to[…]
Indie Review: Not My Ruckus by Chad Musick Not My Ruckus is a disturbing and compelling novel told from an unusual perspective. While not labeled “Young Adult,” it seems geared for this audience. It’s 1980 in Texas, where 14-year-old Clare lives with Frank, her big but cowardly older brother; her “ample” mother and her secretive[…]
Indie Review: The Living Days by Ananda Devi, Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
By shelfmedia Review Oct 04, 2020
Indie Review: The Living Days by Ananda Devi, Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman A Realistic Fairy Tale. Kirkus describes The Living Days as “a gorgeously written, profoundly upsetting fairy tale of race, class, power, and desire.” Profoundly upsetting? Yes. A gorgeously written fairy tale? No. The portrayal of Cub and his poverty-stricken family living in the[…]
Indie Review: Courage and Complicity When is Enough, Enough? Claudette Languedoc’s book Courage and Complicity, an engaging tale about a young Caucasian female teacher who takes a position in an Indian residential school in Canada, weighs heavy on my mind. Consider this your trigger warning: You can’t go into this book without some level of[…]
Indie Review: I am Mrs. Jesse James A Marriage of Constants There are two constants in Pat Wahler’s novel I am Mrs. Jesse James: love and revenge. It’s difficult to imagine a marriage withstanding such opposites, yet there’s Zee James loving her husband through injury, giving him children, and traipsing across the country at his[…]
Indie Review: Maggie: A Journey of Love, Loss and Survival The Hand a Woman’s Dealt Author, Vicki Tapia, takes the reader on a journey of women’s rights from 1887 to 1941 using her great-great grandmother as the vessel through which she sheds light on the history of women’s rights. Maggie: A Journey of Love, Loss[…]
