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SJ Sindu’s ‘Marriage of a Thousand Lies’ Explores the Multicultural Struggles of LGBTQ Life

A lovely debut, Marriage of a Thousand Lies (Soho Press, June 13, 2017) brings to light the layers of struggles that shape our decisions on how we choose to live our lives. Lucky and her husband Kris are both gay, in a marriage of convenience to keep Kris in the…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 31, 2017

Fiction

Author Lisa Duffy Hits a Home Run with Debut Novel, ‘The Salt House’

In The Salt House, author Lisa Duffy masterfully takes us deep into the layers of emotions of the Kelly family as they work through feelings of guilt, responsibility and pain following a tragic family loss. The story is set in a small coastal fishing town in Maine where the Kelly's are struggling.…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 26, 2017

Fiction

Lisa Jewell Perfectly Writes Complicated Relationships in ‘I Found You’

I discovered Lisa Jewell when I picked up The House We Grew Up In last year, a story about a dysfunctional family with a matriarch who is a hoarder, and I couldn’t put it down. I took the book with me to the bathroom so I wouldn’t have to stop…

Heather FrimmerJune 12, 2017

Fiction

Kelly Harms’ Latest Novel Is Your Perfect “Match” This Summer

At BookTrib, we are constantly searching for the best ways to connect readers with writers, opening their eyes and worlds to fresh ideas! This is how we came across a wonderful group known as the Tall Poppies, who are not only avid readers, but extremely talented writers as well! This…

Susan GlossAugust 9, 2017

Fiction

J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ Explores Family Secrets

Read on for a review of J. Courtney Sullivan's Saints for All Occasions, by Jane Green, author of The Sunshine Sisters. Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious…

Jane GreenMay 25, 2017

Fiction

Drama, Tragedy and Redemption: Karma Brown’s “In This Moment” Explores the Dark Side of Suburban Life

In her first two novels, Come Away With Me and The Choices We Make, Karma Brown takes her readers on a journey through creatively imagined plots outside usual personal experiences, carefully connecting readers to the emotions of the unique plotlines through well drawn characters and brilliant pacing. In her newest…

Amy ImpellizeriJuly 27, 2017

Fiction

Author Christine Pakkala Discovers a Different Home in Emily Ruskovich’s ‘Idaho’

The Idaho where I grew up is a very different place than the one Emily Ruskovich describes in her lyrical and thrilling novel, Idaho. My Idaho was a place of drive-ins and pulp mill pollution, long stretches of empty highway, and crowded pews in church. Hers is a romantic place,…

Christine PakkalaJuly 10, 2017

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Loved It! Camille Di Maio’s ‘Before the Rain Falls’ Full of Heartbreak and Hope

Camille Di Maio's Before the Rain Falls explores the 1940s, when Della was charged with murdering her sister and spent many years of her life in jail. Now an old woman, she returns to her family home in Puerto Pesar, Texas, with no family or friends. Around the same time,…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 5, 2017

Fiction

Book Review: The rise of the Subprimes

The hard-knocks imagery in the opening pages of The Subprimes (Harper; May 12, 2015) is riveting. Homeless people, tucked into ragged sleeping bags, are camped out under a “crumbling freeway, so dilapidated and overdue for resurfacing you could glimpse through the cracks the sooty undercarriages of cars passing overhead.” Above…

Carol MemmottMay 5, 2015

Fiction

Angie Thomas Beautifully Takes on Daily Injustices in ‘The Hate U Give’

Read on for a review of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, which received Eight Starred Reviews and is No. 1 New York Times bestseller! Debut YA novels by little-known black former rappers rarely start eight-way bidding wars among publishers, but Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give, soon to…

Maria Thompson CorleyMay 22, 2017

Fiction

Alison MacLeod’s “All the Beloved Ghosts” Is Short Story Gold

"Short stories are like pots on a potter's wheel", said Alison MacLeod in an interview for Matter Magazine. "They seem slippery and mysterious when I write them: I don't know how they're going to take shape (or if they will) but I trust my instincts and I trust the story…

Midwest Book ReviewApril 20, 2017

Fiction

“Washington Black” Paints a Fresh Slave Narrative

With history, science and creativity, Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Knopf) tells the story of an 11-year-old slave in Barbados and his adventurous escape to freedom. Washington Black, or Wash, brought up in the sugar cane fields, experienced more than his share of oppression, suffering and abuse. When the slave master's brother,…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 12, 2018

Fiction

Review: The Sensual Life of M.F.K. Fisher Reimagined in ‘The Arrangement’

M.F.K. Fisher Preeminent food writer M.F.K. Fisher once wrote: "It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.” Novelist Ashley Warlick gets to the heart of Fisher’s…

Carol MemmottFebruary 4, 2016

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“My Policeman” Brings 1950s Forbidden Gay Romance to Life on Screen

My Policeman (Penguin Books) isn’t your ordinary love triangle. In 1957, we meet Marion, a young woman hopelessly in love with Tom, her best friend’s brother. Tom — training to become a policeman — returns her affections, but holds a secret of his own. He’s started seeing Patrick, a confident…

Megan BeauregardOctober 24, 2022

Fiction Listicles

8 Fiction Books Revealing the Risk of Fame

After you read a book about a celebrity you might realize you’d never want to be a celebrity. If you read a book about fame you’d never want to be famous. Because, in books, what happens? The center of attention, the rockstar, the movie star, the influential publisher ... they…

Hank Phillippi RyanAugust 26, 2021

SJ Sindu’s ‘Marriage of a Thousand Lies’ Explores the Multicultural Struggles of LGBTQ Life

Author Lisa Duffy Hits a Home Run with Debut Novel, ‘The Salt House’

Lisa Jewell Perfectly Writes Complicated Relationships in ‘I Found You’

Kelly Harms’ Latest Novel Is Your Perfect “Match” This Summer

J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ Explores Family Secrets

Drama, Tragedy and Redemption: Karma Brown’s “In This Moment” Explores the Dark Side of Suburban Life

Author Christine Pakkala Discovers a Different Home in Emily Ruskovich’s ‘Idaho’

Loved It! Camille Di Maio’s ‘Before the Rain Falls’ Full of Heartbreak and Hope

Book Review: The rise of the Subprimes

Angie Thomas Beautifully Takes on Daily Injustices in ‘The Hate U Give’

Alison MacLeod’s “All the Beloved Ghosts” Is Short Story Gold

“Washington Black” Paints a Fresh Slave Narrative

Review: The Sensual Life of M.F.K. Fisher Reimagined in ‘The Arrangement’

“My Policeman” Brings 1950s Forbidden Gay Romance to Life on Screen

8 Fiction Books Revealing the Risk of Fame

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