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Thin Girls by Diana Clarke deals with some heavy, important subjects all at once: eating disorders, body image issues/body dysmorphia [...]

The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tiny book that packs a big punch. Chih the cleric (they/them) and Almost Brilliant (a hoopoe bird) ...

Look How Happy I'm Making You by Polly Rosenwaike features stories about women who want to be mothers, who reluctantly come into...

I'm honored to be part of the St. Martin's Press Star-Touched Stories Blog Tour, to celebrate Roshani Chokshi's newest addition to the...

I feel rather ambivalent about my reading of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Having read, and enjoyed, Ng’s debut novel Everything...

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag is a short read that packs a punch. At once dealing with issues of class and feminism, there are many...

What do I really want? That's the question that the unnamed narrator of Chemistry by Weike Wang sets out to answer after she has a...

Sing, Unburied, Sing is Jesmyn Ward's senior novel. While I've had her Hurricane Katrina-related Salvage the Bones on my to-read list for...

Happy 2018, dear readers! As many of you might have done, or may be doing, I am reflecting on my favorite reads of 2017: Burial Rites...

“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.” There are some books that...

Toni Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, has written over a dozen different fiction novels and over a half-dozen non-fiction novels in...

It was a plodding journey at times, but I made it through the entirety of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. While this was a required text...

With a compelling narrative and realistic characters, Nadia Hashimi brings the harrowing experiences of refugees to life in the pages of...

“Family is family. Whether it’s the one you start out with… the one that you end up with… or the family that you gain along the way.” -...

A Court of Thorns and Roses, the new series from best-selling author, Sarah J. Maas, takes the familiar tale of Beauty and the Beast to a...

I’m thinking of ending things. It's likely most of us have been in a relationship where we’ve had this exact thought. Maybe things...

After a garden party one hazy summer evening, where her mother had one glass of one too many, a girl goes looking for her older sister....

When Jill Charron opens her eyes, she finds herself in a hospital bed, fresh from unconsciousness. She is told that she was involved in a...

Frustrated. Irritated. Incredulous. These are the three words that come to mind as I write a review for Frayed by Kara Terzis. It has...

A baby boy is born in the darkness of a basement. As he grows up, he learns that there was a horrific fire that left his grandmother,...