Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is a book that’s hard to put down. It will tug at your heartstrings while also forcing you to question who and what you believe and why…among other things.
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Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Review: Frankissstein
Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson is unlike any book I’ve ever read. I’ve never read sexually graphic scenes so close to philosophical inquiries, so close to song lyrics, so close to notable passages of literature. Yet, somehow, Winterson pulls these unconventional combinations off in this novel. And all the various pieces of the novel and its multiple narratives come together by the end of the novel, which means that you should definitely read this novel to the end.
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Book Review: Our Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain
Our Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain is a book that will have you second-guessing your own intentions and biases about the world and the people in it. As you read, you will become more and more immersed in the world of the Kitchewan community and its inhabitants.
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Mothers in fiction
In the wake of US Supreme Court Justice Alito’s leaked drafted opinion regarding Roe v. Wade and Mother’s Day, which was yesterday, I am wondering: Does fiction about mothers and motherhood reveal more about our society and how it treats women than we readily acknowledge? Mothers in fiction are typically distraught, depressed, scared, prone to run away, etc.
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