May 23, 2024
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May 8, 2024
The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
An evocation of the universal immigrant crisis is a lesson to the world: we are all guilty of the crimes that motivate refugees and of the impulse to shelter and redeem them. Powerful and revelatory.
April 17, 2024
Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chang
The plight of women after the communist takeover of China is the subject of this engaging story, based on the life of the author’s grandmother. The historic second-class status of women was not erased entirely by the social, cultural and political upheaval of Mao’s ascendancy.
February 28, 2024
All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. Morris
The backstory of an historically reviled character which reveals the true woman behind the culturally iconic wife of Macbeth, from one of Shakespeare’s most fascinating works.
February 21, 2024
Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts
Ishmael, he of Moby Dick notability, is the impetus for this far-ranging and entertaining novel of three women who seek his whereabouts and answers to their questions about his abandonment of them. Well-written and continuously engaging.
February 14, 2024