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Toxic Masculinity, Suffocating Parents and Survival

In Sophie Mackintosh's debut dystopian fiction, The Water Cure (Doubleday), love is rationed like water--and in scarce supply. Dubbed "a gripping, sinister fable" by dystopian queen Margaret Atwood, I had high expectations coming into this novel. Mackintosh did not disappoint. Three sisters live on an island with their mother and…
Rebecca Proulx
January 9, 2019
Fiction

EXCLUSIVE! Jules Moulin on Her New Book and Leaving Hollywood

Jules Moulin was living the dream in California, writing scripts for Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning television series, when she realized that just wasn’t her dream anymore. After deciding to dedicate herself full-time to her family, Moulin set out on her next career adventure—author. Now with the release of her…
Beth Wasko
October 15, 2015
Fiction

Award-Winning Poet Ocean Vuong’s Debut Novel

On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press) is a hallucinogenic and free-wheeling meditation on addiction, violence and love, composed as a series of letters to an illiterate immigrant mother. Written by award-winning poet Ocean Vuong, this is ultimately a book about language and memory, the challenge of channeling and crystalizing…
Jessica McEntee
June 4, 2019
Fiction

A Star-Crossed Romance Surviving in Dreams

Dreams have become popular subjects to analyze over the years, and many psychotherapists have attested to their power of symbolized meanings. Charletta Barksdale, debut author of Desire of Whimsy (Lulu Publishing), takes the agency of dreams to a whole new level. Barksdale bends the power of the mind to fantastical…
BookTrib
February 10, 2019