Page-turning novel about the often false promises of the American Dream for an immigrant family from Cameroon and a US family with a senior Lehman Bros executive as breadwinner.
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My 20 Books of Summer 2022
I’ve chosen my 20 books of summer.
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón (Iceland)
Translated by Victoria Cribb EUROPE Book 14 of my #20booksofsummer21 Time is whizzing by and I’m not sure if I’m going to get through all the 20 books on my list. I wish I’d counted the three “extra” books I read earlier in the summer! (Though that would mean going back and writing reviews.) Set …
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (USA): Review no 164
One of Anne Tyler’s most-loved novels
June 2021 round up
It’s been a challenging month, with my daughter still recovering at home from extensive orthopaedic surgery, and reluctantly doing some home schooling from the sofa. We’ve been sharing a sofa bed downstairs for two months while she needs care in the night, and at 14 she could really do without her mum sharing a bedroom …
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
Review no 162 Book 5 of my #20booksofsummer The God of Small Things is one of those books that everyone reading this will have heard of, but I don’t suppose everyone will have read. It won the Booker Prize in 1997 and rapidly became the biggest-selling work of Indian fiction by a non-expat writer. Arundhati …
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Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood (USA): Review no 161
#20booksofsummer, book 4 Priestdaddy is an acclaimed memoir by US writer Patricia Lockwood, who is currently on the Women’s Prize shortlist for her first novel, No-one Is Talking About This, and whose tweets come imbued with the aura of legend. This, her first book, was published in 2017, and has a particularly random cover in …
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Consent by Annabel Lyon (Canada)
Gripping, emotionally real tale of sibling responsibility
Deborah Levy’s “Real Estate”
Deborah Levy’s wonderful work of almost-memoir, ‘Real Estate’
20 Books of Summer 2021
My summer reading plans!