Immigrant Life

Feb 7

Review of Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey from El Salvador to the United States without family at age nine keeps the reader within each...

Feb 2

Review of Maame by Jessica George

Jessica George's debut Maame takes on big issues of race, culture, and the challenges of growing up between two cultures while shining in...

Dec 22, 2022

Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan

I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious fervor and faith, secret...

Oct 19, 2022

Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Letter. It's magical and...

Apr 15, 2022

Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences

Powerful Books about the Experiences of Immigrants I could have listed many other powerful books about immigrants. But these four fiction...

Oct 29, 2021

October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from October! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I included an immersive memoir...

Oct 19, 2021

Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Main protagonist Gifty's journey was full of challenges and not too easy or complete, and her voice had me hooked throughout Yaa Gyasi's...

Oct 15, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman exploring other...

Sep 24, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anthony Doerr's upcoming literary fiction tale of interconnected characters that spans centuries,...

Aug 13, 2021

Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In

More Memoirs I've Loved I love a good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another...

Apr 2, 2021

March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

Ta-da! My very favorite books from March! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month: a beautiful story of heartbreak...

Mar 22, 2021

Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan

Characters cope with lost dreams and find ways to (often clumsily) come together through their shared pain. The vibrancy of Beirut is...

Mar 3, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition

What I'm Reading Now Here's what I've got going at the moment: a dark, intriguing story of interconnectedness between unusual characters;...

Jan 26, 2021

Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Evaristo offers a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black women in contemporary Britain and their friendships, loves, struggles,...

Jan 22, 2021

Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience

01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...

Jan 18, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition

01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...

Dec 28, 2020

Review of The Empress by Laura Martinez-Belli

In the story of tragic Carlota, each turn of events was more ill-fated and darker than the next, all barreling toward ruin and...

Dec 18, 2020

Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

01 The Huntress by Kate Quinn I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists, and I loved this book. Nina...

Dec 1, 2020

Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu

Lu offers complex motivations, clashes between idealism and realism, editorialization about class and race, and futuristic advancements...

Nov 6, 2020

Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year

01 Where the Forest Meets the Stars Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears into the constant attention her...

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