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Opium and Identity: 19th Century Woman Battles Crime

Port Townsend, Washington, 1887. An ex-Pinkerton agent named Alma Rosales is hunting for opium stolen from her employer, criminal boss Delphine Beaumond, one of the most dangerous women in the Northwest. Also on the hunt is a dockworker named Jack Camp, a rough brawler with his own plans for the…
Neil Nyren
November 7, 2018
Fiction

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

Rachel Cusk earned critical renown with her “Outline” series, three books that strip bare traditional narrative formats and train the spotlight on minor characters, eliding the narrator’s identity and making her a mere conduit. Cusk’s newest novel, Second Place (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), performs an about-face from this approach, sinking…
Jessica McEntee
May 7, 2021
Fiction

Progress and Tradition Go Head-to-Head in Indian Political Thriller, “A Nest for Lalita”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/booktrib_KenLanger_ANestForLalita.jpg “Langer’s prose is lucid and wonderfully detailed … is extremely successful at bringing the time and place to vivid life.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— The streets of Sompur, India, were not for the faint of heart. Narrow roads congested by cars, trucks, rickshaws and livestock made navigation tricky under…
Chelsea Ciccone
October 20, 2020
Fiction

Her Body and Other Parties: The New “Handmaid’s Tale?”

Watch out world. Carmen Maria Macho’s award-winning collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) will become a television series. Her phantasmagoric short stories, all about sex and shifting genders, are coming to a small screen near you. In development for FX, the series will be written by Gina Welch, known…
Joanna Poncavage
December 28, 2018
ListiclesNonfiction

9 Books to Awaken the Activist in All of Us

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/untamed-equality.jpg Given our nation’s current climate and the looming election, discussions of equality have entered the forefront of our political discussions. This selection of books discusses equality on all fronts and how each of us can become a catalyst for positive change. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Told from the…
Gabby Torrenti
November 3, 2020