Anne Eliot Feldman

Political, Cultural and Religious Struggles in 1980s Turkish Romance

Wagih Abu-Rish’s second historical novel, Nad of Nadidé (Kirkland Publishing House), is a unique love story set in 1981 in Istanbul, Turkey amidst the political turbulence of the ruling military junta. The fast-paced action that drives this one-of-a-kind romance derives from the unlikely pairing of twenty-year-old engineering students Fareed Shaheen…

Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 6, 2022

Fiction

Award-Winning Coming-Of-Age Story Set Amidst China’s Cultural Revolution

George Lee’s debut novel Dancing in the River (Guernica Editions) offers a rare and intimate view into the coming of age of a young boy in a sleepy mountain village along the Yangtze River, during and after China’s Cultural Revolution. From grammar school through college, Little Bright maneuvers a turbulent…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 18, 2022

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Star-Crossed Lovers Face Fears and Follow Dreams in Hawaii

Who says a beach read needs to be read at the beach or in the summer only? As the fall season arrives you’ll still be sure to enjoy the Hawaii-set novel, Where The Sun Rises (Rosewind Books), written by Anna Gomez and Kristoffer Polaha. The story presents a captivating romance between…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 11, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Long-Divorced Lucy Barton Finds Love During Pandemic

A LONG-DIVORCED COUPLE'S UNEXPECTED BOND IN THE EARLY LOCKDOWN DAYS In Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Lucy By The Sea (Penguin Random House), Lucy Barton draws us right in with her first few words, understated, self-effacing and intimate: “Like many others, I did not see it coming. But William is a…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 19, 2022

Fiction

Historical “The Bootlegger’s Mistress” Illuminates Underpinnings of America’s Great Migration

With his latest novel, The Bootlegger’s Mistress (MLPR Books), Marc Curtis Little shines a compelling light on the difficult implications of America’s Great Migration, the decades-long exodus of African Americans from the racially oppressive South to the North and West. This is the tale of a fictional family’s 1940s journey…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 29, 2021

Fiction

Marie Benedict Reconstructs Agatha Christie’s Famous Disappearance

"Brilliantly constructed and richly detailed ... a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie." — Chanel Cleeton, NYT bestselling author of Next Year in Havana "Each page uncovers fresh layers of pain, rage, genius and suffering, culminating with a firecracker of an ending." — Stuart Turton, author of The Devil and…

Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 28, 2020

Fiction

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_hero-can-I-be-maureen-hogan-lutz-book-review.jpg Set in the '60s, Maureen Hogan Lutz’s newest novel, Hero Can I Be, is the fast-paced story of James “Jamie” Vincent Corrigan, “a tall redhead with a hair-trigger temper” whose troubled yet street-smart New York City upbringing by Irish Catholic immigrant parents shapes him into the hero he becomes,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 11, 2020

Fiction

“A Bend in the River” Explores Conflict Between Sisters in War-Torn Vietnam

Libby Fischer Hellman’s latest novel A Bend in the River centers on two young South Vietnamese sisters whose bucolic childhoods in the Mekong Delta change forever when U.S. soldiers invade their small village one morning in March 1968 to hunt down Viet Cong. The book opens with a question: “Is…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 7, 2020

Fiction

“The Bass Rock:” Family Secrets and Reckonings Across Four Generations of Scotland

Bass Rock is a massive piece of volcanic rock that sits along the eastern coast of Scotland. Home to the largest population of gannets in the world, a lighthouse built by Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather, and an abandoned castle, it presents a dramatic backdrop to Evie Wyld’s powerful third novel,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 9, 2020

Fiction

“The Last Moon Before Home” Savors the Intimacy and Humor of Moments Spent With Loved Ones

"Dzikowski brings a steady authorial hand to this poignant and approachable family tale." — Booklife by Publishers Weekly "Wonderful character studies ... a complex and engrossing family tale." — Kirkus Reviews In Barbara J. Dzikowski’s new multigenerational tale, The Last Moon Before Home, frayed family ties become strained even further…

Anne Eliot FeldmanAugust 10, 2020

Book Club Network Nonfiction

One Woman’s Brazilian Nightmare and Survival in “The Parrot’s Perch”

In The Parrot’s Perch (She Writes Press), Karen Keilt offers a brave and detailed account of how she and her newly-wed husband Rick Sage were illegally incarcerated on trumped-up drug charges, tortured for forty-five horrific days by the Brazilian police and then forced to rebuild their broken selves without retribution…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 11, 2020

Fiction

Elizabeth Strout’s Beloved Character is Back in “Olive, Again”

Olive Kitteridge is back and we are richer for it. Elizabeth Strout’s new novel Olive, Again (Random House)—sequel to her 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge that spawned the eponymous television mini-series and won a Pulitzer prize—is arguably better than its predecessor. The story resumes with Olive in her mid-seventies still residing…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 17, 2019

Fiction

The Race to Find the Perfect Husband

In Zara Raheem’s fresh debut novel, The Marriage Clock (William Morrow), a Muslim-American woman races to find the man of her dreams as her traditional Indian parents threaten to arrange the marriage for her. The truth? Leila Abid would like to have someone else’s life. As a child, she envisioned…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJuly 23, 2019

Fiction

Mary Alice Monroe’s Summer Guests: Rescue Dogs, Horses and More

Mary Alice Monroe’s newest novel The Summer Guests (Gallery) provides a heart-warming tale about friends and family who gather together on a North Carolina farm to flee a late summer hurricane headed to the southern Atlantic coast. A chilling one-page prologue outlines in scientific detail the makings of an extremely…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJuly 3, 2019

Thrillers

Detective Team Unveils Mystery in 1930s Chicago

Michelle Cox suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s. Perhaps that is why she writes about the period so adeptly. Chicago is the setting for her award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, engaging plots that charm us with modern-minded characters enmeshed in a world full of social expectations,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 12, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

Mystery-Solving Couple Sets 1930s Chicago on Fire

In A Veil Removed (She Writes Press), the fourth book in Michelle Cox’s Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, the untimely death of Clive’s father and the abrupt end to Henrietta’s sister's unseemly romance drag the just-married couple into the underside of 1930s Chicago. Established family business ties reveal their nefarious…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 1, 2019

Anne Eliot Feldman

Political, Cultural and Religious Struggles in 1980s Turkish Romance

Award-Winning Coming-Of-Age Story Set Amidst China’s Cultural Revolution

Star-Crossed Lovers Face Fears and Follow Dreams in Hawaii

Historical “The Bootlegger’s Mistress” Illuminates Underpinnings of America’s Great Migration

Marie Benedict Reconstructs Agatha Christie’s Famous Disappearance

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

“A Bend in the River” Explores Conflict Between Sisters in War-Torn Vietnam

“The Bass Rock:” Family Secrets and Reckonings Across Four Generations of Scotland

“The Last Moon Before Home” Savors the Intimacy and Humor of Moments Spent With Loved Ones

One Woman’s Brazilian Nightmare and Survival in “The Parrot’s Perch”

Elizabeth Strout’s Beloved Character is Back in “Olive, Again”

The Race to Find the Perfect Husband

Mary Alice Monroe’s Summer Guests: Rescue Dogs, Horses and More

Detective Team Unveils Mystery in 1930s Chicago

Mystery-Solving Couple Sets 1930s Chicago on Fire

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