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Identity Is Complicated in “The Vanishing Half”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-vanishing-half-brit-bennett.jpg In an outstanding second novel that's now a Good Morning America Book Club pick, author Brit Bennett tackles the topic of identity, showing that who we are on the outside is only one part of us. The Vanishing Half is the story of African American identical twins in the 1950s…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 10, 2020
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Author Q&A: Sara Novic on “True Biz” – Coming of Age Amid Deaf Culture

Recently, Book Nation Book Club had a wonderful conversation with author Sara Nović about her novel, True Biz (Random House) and the Deaf community. The story centers around a high school for the Deaf and dives deep into the lives of three main characters: Charlie, Austin and February. Charlie is a…
Jennifer Blankfein
July 4, 2022
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A Collaboration of Creative Soul Mates: Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

BookTrib was joined by two incredible authors, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, to discuss their new release, The Personal Librarian. Together, they bring to life the story of Belle da Costa Greene, personal librarian to financier J.P. Morgan. For a woman at the start of the 20th century, her position…
BookTrib
July 20, 2021
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Cherie Jones on the Cultural and Criminal Undercurrents Beneath the Beauty of Barbados

The beauty and allure of Barbados are etched in my mind, but the peaceful beaches and friendly people are overshadowed when the underbelly is revealed in this fictional tale. Cherie Jones tells a compelling story of poverty, crime, race and social order in How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House…
Jennifer Blankfein
April 1, 2021
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Ashley Audrain on the Dark Side of Motherhood in “The Push”

“One day you’ll understand, Blythe. The women in this family…we’re different.” The woman talking in Ashley Audrain’s scorching novel The Push (Pamela Dorman Books) is Blythe Connor’s mother, Cecilia. Cecilia’s mother, Etta, hung herself at the age of thirty-two. Cecilia herself left the family when Blythe was only eleven. “I don’t…
Neil Nyren
December 25, 2020