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Frank and Youmans on Parenting, Privilege and Points of View in “Tiny Imperfections”

—∞— WANT A PREVIEW? HERE'S A PREVIOUS Q&A WITH THE AUTHORS In Tiny Imperfections (Putnam), debut authors Alli Frank and Asha Youmans deliver The Wedding Date meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money and misbehaving parents. At 39, Josie Bordelon’s modeling career as the “it” black beauty…

BookTribMay 3, 2020

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Tall Poppy Review: Capturing a Time, an Emotion, and Your Attention

There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…

Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Shedding Weight and Tears

People argue over who said "Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle," whether it was Plato or Philo or John Watson or whoever. But Cathy Lamb's touching Such a Pretty Face (Kensington) is the novel that philosophy perfectly embodies. It invites us to think about how what we…

Hank Phillippi RyanApril 18, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Clinging to Painful Memories

Memories are at the core of what it means to be human. To have lived and loved. To have triumphed and failed. To have changed and still remained so much the same. Memories bind us to family, friends and places. Memories make us who we are. In The Favorite Daughter…

Susan Bishop CrispellJune 6, 2019

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Tall Poppy Review: Loyalties Shift in “Garden of Lies”

In 1943, as the prologue of Garden of Lies (Open Road Media) opens, a young woman named Sylvie succumbs to her first stirrings of true passion—with the handyman, Nikos, instead of her rich, older husband. She soon discovers she’s pregnant. Sylvie prays that the baby is her husband’s, but when the…

Kathryn CraftDecember 13, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “I’m Fine and Neither Are You”

I’m Fine and Neither are You (Lake Union Publishing)—the title alone is so rife with conflict that it could be a writing prompt, and we’d all end up novelists. I wonder, though, how many of us could come up with as impactful a story as Camille Pagán’s newest, which is…

Kathryn CraftApril 11, 2019

Fiction

Syrian Refugee Struggles Run Deep in “The Beekeeper of Aleppo”

Author Christy Lefteri is a daughter of refugees, and spent several summers volunteering with refugees in Greece. There is no doubt she beautifully and accurately taps into the suffering of her characters with the heartfelt storytelling of the plight of Syrian refugees in The Beekeeper of Aleppo. This emotional story…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 22, 2020

Fiction

“My Dark Vanessa” Explores Issues of Consent, Complicity and Coercion

On the heels of the American Dirt conversations, Kate Elizabeth Russell's novel, My Dark Vanessa, has been met with its own controversy. Another highly anticipated novel — one that garnered its author a six-figure book deal — has entered the conversation on the gap in opportunities available to Latinx authors. My…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 10, 2020

Fiction

“More Than Words” Challenges a Life Mapped Out

More than Words (Putnam Books) is Jill Santopolo’s highly anticipated contemporary women’s fiction following her national bestseller The Light We Lost. Nina Gregory was raised by her father, Joseph Gregory, the owner of a high-end hotel company. He adores Nina, and she’s completely devoted to him. In her thirties, Nina…

Ann LinebergerFebruary 6, 2019

Fiction

Melissa Falcon Field and the Risks of Social Media

Melissa Falcon Field alights on the literary fiction scene with her spell-binding debut novel, What Burns Away (Sourcebooks Landmark, January 2015). In a delicately woven tale of temptation and loyalty, new mom and protagonist Claire Spruce’s high school sweetheart resurfaces via social media at a vulnerable time in her life.…

Angela PalmJanuary 1, 2015

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Jamie Brenner’s “Blush” Gives Three Women Bonded by Family the Chance for Beautiful Boldness

Review and Q&A with Susan Shapiro Barash aka Susannah Marren, author of A Palm Beach Scandal (St. Martin's Griffin) Three generations of women at a family vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island find their strength and determination put to the test in Jamie Brenner’s new novel, Blush (G.P.…

Susan Shapiro BarashJune 22, 2021

Fiction

Hoffman’s Latest Magic Prequel Full of 1600s Lore and Modern Relevance

Many fans of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic series have no doubt wanted more on the origins of the Owens women. Magic Lessons (Simon & Schuster) gives fans what they crave and will satisfy lovers of folk medicine, witchcraft and history. But even more importantly, Hoffman’s novel gives readers a look…

Y. M. NelsonOctober 6, 2020

Fiction

Girlfriends Make Aging Fun and Fulfilling in “It’s Not All Downhill From Here”

If you’re craving an escape from reality, look no further than Terry McMillan’s heart-warming and humorous tenth novel, It's Not All Downhill From Here (Ballantine Books). The wisecracking, procrastinating Loretha Curry hates celebrating her birthday. To discourage her four BFFs from their latest planned celebration, her third husband, Carl, strikes…

Jodé MillmanMarch 31, 2020

Fiction

Forging New Relationships and Redefining Home

This is Home (Atria Books) is the emotional story of Libby, a motherless teenage girl trying to create and define her home along with Quinn, a military wife who feels abandoned and is searching for belonging. The characters are searching for connection and the family they really want is not…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 11, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Family, Friendships, Feuds and Forgiveness in “Once Upon a Sunset”

Combine family dynamics, long-buried secrets, career turmoil, heartbreak and the potential of new romance, and you have the recipe for a fabulous book. In Once Upon a Sunset (Gallery Books), Tif Marcelo effortlessly tosses together all those ingredients into a novel that delivers the full spectrum of feels. Diana Gallagher-Cary is…

Orly KonigMarch 12, 2020

Fiction

Take a Jitney Ride to a Drama Set in the Elegant Hamptons

Summertime in Sag Harbor – the boats knock against the docks, the air is salt and the season is sunshine. If you love art and books with glamorous settings, Drawing Home is the perfect summer read. Sag Harbor locals are accustomed to tourists and summer people. But in Jamie Brenner's…

Claudia KeenanMay 3, 2019

Women’s Fiction

Frank and Youmans on Parenting, Privilege and Points of View in “Tiny Imperfections”

Tall Poppy Review: Shedding Weight and Tears

Tall Poppy Review: Clinging to Painful Memories

Tall Poppy Review: Loyalties Shift in “Garden of Lies”

Tall Poppy Review: “I’m Fine and Neither Are You”

Syrian Refugee Struggles Run Deep in “The Beekeeper of Aleppo”

“My Dark Vanessa” Explores Issues of Consent, Complicity and Coercion

“More Than Words” Challenges a Life Mapped Out

Jamie Brenner’s “Blush” Gives Three Women Bonded by Family the Chance for Beautiful Boldness

Hoffman’s Latest Magic Prequel Full of 1600s Lore and Modern Relevance

Girlfriends Make Aging Fun and Fulfilling in “It’s Not All Downhill From Here”

Forging New Relationships and Redefining Home

Tall Poppy Review: Family, Friendships, Feuds and Forgiveness in “Once Upon a Sunset”

Take a Jitney Ride to a Drama Set in the Elegant Hamptons

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