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Fiction

Navigate Family Life Between Canada and Hong Kong in Pik-Shuen Fung’s “Ghost Forest”

With evidence of soul searching and self questioning, author Pik-Shuen Fung’s unnamed narrator shares honest, revealing and humorous moments in Ghost Forest (One World). When her family decided to make a life in Vancouver, her father had to return to Hong Kong to work. The mother went through a tough time…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 15, 2021

Fiction

Historical Fiction With Twists of Plenty More in “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch”

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a work of historical fiction from Rivka Galchen, is a darkly humorous, surrealist and riveting tale about hysteria and group think. Set in Germany in the early 1600s with the Thirty Years’ War and the Plague ravaging the country,…

Jessica McEnteeJune 8, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Thousand-Mile Journey with China’s Magical Spirits

After closing the cover of Janie Chang’s new release, The Library of Legends (William Morrow), I was filled with a sense of wonder that sent me to my trusty Merriam-Webster dictionary for a way to describe what I’d just witnessed. A legend is a story that comes down to us…

Kathryn CraftApril 30, 2020

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Stories that Evoke the Nuance, Fear and Tenderness of Motherhood

When I had my daughter in 2014, it felt impossible to find literature that took motherhood both seriously and tenderly. I could find medical guides or how-to books on sleep training and funny quips about the exhaustion of early motherhood, but all of these books felt very far from the…

Amanda Parrish MorganOctober 20, 2022

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In Adrienne Young’s Latest, an Unsolved Murder Comes Back to Haunt This Pacific Northwest Town

Spells for Forgetting (Delacorte Press) is not only a great read in and of itself, but it just so happens to be the perfect literary transition into the tail end of the calendar year. Everything about the novel exudes a bracing chill that’s, ironically, the coziest and warmest thing to…

Judy MorenoOctober 3, 2022

Fiction Miscellany Romance

AuthorBuzz: A Magical Realism Romance Giveaway and Two More Stunning Love Stories

Sorry, this promotion is over. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! Delighted: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Lexi Blake (1001 Dark Nights Press) Dear Reader, Delighted is probably the happiest book I’ve ever written. I’m not kidding. There’s a bunch of joy on these pages. Delighted is…

AuthorBuzzSeptember 5, 2022

Navigate Family Life Between Canada and Hong Kong in Pik-Shuen Fung’s “Ghost Forest”

Historical Fiction With Twists of Plenty More in “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch”

Tall Poppy Review: A Thousand-Mile Journey with China’s Magical Spirits

In Adrienne Young’s Latest, an Unsolved Murder Comes Back to Haunt This Pacific Northwest Town

AuthorBuzz: A Magical Realism Romance Giveaway and Two More Stunning Love Stories

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