Honest, thoughtful, and passionate book reviews and recommendations.
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Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy is an utterly astounding account of the heinous ways in which the American justice system gets incarceration and the death penalty so wrong – disproportionately in the lives of disenfranchised and marginalized people.
★★★★
Tanen Jones’ The Better Liar is a deceptive, edge-of-your-seat domestic thriller about a woman who will go to great lengths to claim her inheritance.
Thank you to Random House for the free advanced copy!
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Miranda Popkey’s Topics of Conversation is a particularly distinctive collection of conversations between women painting a portrait of female desire, love, shame, and much more.
Thank you to Knopf Publishing for the free book!
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven tells the story of a pandemic that kills a majority of the population, leaving the survivors in a shockingly realistic post-apocalyptic world.
★★★★★
Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a fantastically unique, searingly honest memoir of one woman’s experience with abuse in a same-sex relationship.
★★★★
Lee Matalone’s Home Making is a quietly profound story of a mother and daughter, each navigating her own meanings of motherhood and “home.”
Thank you to Harper Perennial for the free advanced copy of this book!
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Rye Curtis’s Kingdomtide is a sparing, motley story of an elderly woman’s struggle to survive after a plane crash strands her in the Montana wilderness, the park ranger who leads her rescue efforts, and the intimate struggles facing each of them.
Thank you to Little Brown for the advanced copy of this book!
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