Tag: girl woman other

My favorite books about grown-up people

May 13, 2021June 9, 2021 Sara Davis4 Comments

Today, FOR NO REASON AT ALL: a list of books about middle-aged people with middle-aged problems.

Posted in FictionTagged bernardine evaristo, elena ferrante, emily st john mandel, george eliot, girl woman other, hilary mantel, jazz, jenny offill, middlemarch, station eleven, the mirror and the light, the story of the lost child, toni morrison, weather, wolf hall

Reading Roundup: August 2020

August 28, 2020 Sara Davis4 Comments

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. The first half is a heady, florid coming of age story set in the pressure cooker of a high school for performing arts. I am not sure it is correct to say that I enjoyed it--the suffocating teenaged desperation for any kind of validation is rendered both sympathetic and insufferable,… Continue reading Reading Roundup: August 2020

Posted in Monthly Reading RoundupTagged a memory called empire, arkady martine, bernardine evaristo, girl woman other, my sister the serial killer, oyinkan braithwaite, susan choi, thick and other essays, tressie mcmillan cottom, trust exercise

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