Social Creature is receiving hype as one of the best summer reads of 2018. Frankly, I get why. The premise revolves around our obsession with social media and how lives are illustrated (or even fabricated)…
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The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Greer Kadetsky has a hunger. A wallflower as a child with parents who display a general disinterest, she found an escape in books. She dreamed of attending an Ivy League school and getting out of…
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Prison is a microcosm of society. I’m not sure who said it (nor is Google), but The Mars Room illustrates this concept in an engaging, moving and personal way. The story focuses on Romy who…
Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Jojo may be a teenager, but he is not, nor was he ever, a child. He is burdened with a mother addicted to drugs, alcohol and the love and attention of his white father. The…
Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan
A classic whodunit story set in a quaint Japanese town. After Keiko Ishida is brutally murdered, her brother Ren Ishida travels to a small town to collect her belongings and look further into the mysterious…
Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Louisa Clark is back and takes on New York City in the third novel of the Me Before You series. While at first I was concerned this book would not live up to the previous…
Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
Why? The one-word question everyone has after a heinous event. In Grist Mill Road, a thirteen year old, Matthew, ties a fellow teenager, Hannah, to a tree and proceeds to shoot her repetitively (49 times)…