Category: book-reviews
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Synopsis Lydia lives a vibrant life in Acapulco, Mexico. She has a large, happy family, a journalist husband who loves her deeply, and a son, Luca, who is the light of her life. The presence of the cartels cause some small issues in her and her loved ones lives, but it doesn’t directly affect them–until…
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Synopsis Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city…
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Synopsis At seven years old, Ellie is living a life of luxury until her father dies, leaving her and her mother to fend for themselves in 1950s Tehran. Desperate for a best friend, she eagerly starts school. Homa enters her life like the answer to her prayers, and they fall into a routine of friendship…
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“When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else.” Synopsis We all know the original story. Homer penned his Iliad, his Odyssey, and those words burrowed deep inside of the human experience. Haynes takes those myths and uplifts the women’s voices, the untold perspectives of age-old stories. Written…