Beautiful, immersive, Oscar-winning coming of age tale
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Passing by Nella Larsen (USA)
A 1929 novel focusing on ambiguous racial identity, that has surely inspired Brit Bennett’s bestselling 2020 novel ‘The Vanishing Half’
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)
Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey (Trinidad and Tobago)
The Mermaid of Black Conch, written by Trinidadian-born author Monique Roffey, was the winner of the Costa Book of Year prize in 2020. It is a book that we recently picked for my book club to read, although we have met very infrequently over the past two years, mainly due to the pandemic. It’s a …
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Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1920-77, Brazil)
Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s final novel
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black (USA)
Fierce and fearless meditation on disabled identity, art, love and loss
Prince: Welcome 2 America review and my Top 7 Prince songs (USA)
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN review no 181, by Imogen G I’ve been feeling for a while that it is more or less impossible to pick a “best” US musician, as (along with the UK) the USA has dominated popular music basically for ever, or certainly throughout my lifetime. Then I started listening to Welcome 2 …
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (b. Dominican Republic)
Critically-acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning novel of Oscar Wao, his family and the long arm of history
A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet (USA)
An often acerbic dystopian novel by US author Lydia Millet
Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle (USA)
Book 11 of my #20booksofsummer, Review no 169 AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Progress has slowed on the blog in recent weeks, as work has ramped up to crazy levels and I’ve been working till late every day, though some time off is in sight. I finished Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle a while …
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