cultural heritage fiction

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

It’s an up-from-the-slums journey for one Blaise Hill, a smart, upbeat young woman fresh out of secondary school and ready to plunge whole-heartedly into a life-changing career. Set in two world capitals, Sydney and London, and spanning the years between 1957 and 1962, readers follow the adventures of this intrepid…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 24, 2021

Fiction

“We Are the Brennans” and We Are On Board With This Novel of Family Secrets and Loyalty

Complex and realistic family dynamics take center stage in Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans: A Novel (Celadon Books). In an era when fictional families are almost always tiny — when authors seem wary of giving much airtime to more than a couple of characters — it’s refreshing to see…

Kirsten MacdissiAugust 6, 2021

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Indian American Journalist Investigates Violence Enacted in the Name of “Honor”

“A woman can live in one of two houses — fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.” I loved Honor (Algonquin Books), an emotional, thought-provoking story, and the incredible writing of the author, Thrity Umrigar. Smita Agarwal, an Indian American reporter from Brooklyn cuts…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 5, 2022

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Family, Grief and Race: “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi

"... Splendor and heart and insight and brilliance." —Ann Patchett "Absolutely transcendent. ... I am quite angry this is so good." —Roxane Gay "Meticulous, psychologically complex ..." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "With deft agility and undeniable artistry, ... an eloquent examination of resilient survival." —Booklist Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi…

Mary Helen SheriffAugust 31, 2020

Fiction

African Village Faces Corporate Greed in Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were”

"A masterful novel by a spellbinding writer." — David Ebershoff, bestselling author of The Danish Girl —∞— How Beautiful We Were (Random House) by Imbolo Mbue is a heartbreaking story of a fictitious African village in the 1980s where children are getting sick and dying due to toxic waste. The…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 23, 2021

Fiction

A Darkly Humorous Tale, Maria Kuznetsova’s “Something Unbelievable” Exceeds Expectations

A book about the struggles of new motherhood in modern-day Manhatten and surviving hostile living situations in the Ural Mountains circa World War II is not what comes to mind when one hears the phrase “laugh-out-loud funny”; however, that is the case for Maria Kuznetsova’s Something Unbelievable (Random House). In…

Madison HillApril 14, 2021

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Eugenics Program Masquerades as Health Clinic in Eye-Opening Historical Novel

Summer of No Rain is a fictional retelling of a disturbing true story. In Alabama in 1973, the sisters Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf were forcibly sterilized as minors in a federally funded, systemically racist and ableist program disguised as “experimental birth control.” Laura Hunter has reimagined this haunting…

BookTribOctober 5, 2022

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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 BlankfeinApril 1, 2021

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

“We Are the Brennans” and We Are On Board With This Novel of Family Secrets and Loyalty

Indian American Journalist Investigates Violence Enacted in the Name of “Honor”

Family, Grief and Race: “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi

African Village Faces Corporate Greed in Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were”

A Darkly Humorous Tale, Maria Kuznetsova’s “Something Unbelievable” Exceeds Expectations

Eugenics Program Masquerades as Health Clinic in Eye-Opening Historical Novel

Cherie Jones on the Cultural and Criminal Undercurrents Beneath the Beauty of Barbados

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