For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Yeji Y. Ham’s debut novel, The Invisible Hotel, is about the inescapable. The conflict between North and South Korea, simmering still beneath a fragile truce, looms as the perpetual backdrop for this contemporary tale about the fears that are dutifully passed from one generation to the next. Yewon is a young woman born and … Read more
[ad_1] What does it mean to find a home? Home has always been very much on the mind of Kyoko Mori, from her lyrical coming-of-age novel, Shizuko’s Daughter, to her memoir-though-knitting, Yarn: Remembering the Way Home. Connecting Mori’s fiction and nonfiction is an interest in understanding women’s communities and their ways of existing in the … Read more
[ad_1] Ghost Pains is author Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ third book and first story collection. Propulsive, reflective, and at times sharply comic, Stevens’ short fiction is characterized by her precise, original prose and striking moments of observation and insight. The protagonists of her stories, equal parts aloof and earnest, at times resemble the leads in her … Read more
[ad_1] Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead follows a young woman, Cory, on the cusp of adulthood when she signs the paperwork for a job as a nanny for the children of Rolo, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive. She is soon whisked away to his remote island where she regularly samples his company’s latest mind-altering painkiller … Read more
[ad_1] My friends and I have a running tally of how long we can go before someone we cross paths with mentions the Great Chicago Fire. It’s become something of a local twist to the “How often do you think of the Roman Empire” trend, where the topic happens to find its way into the … Read more
[ad_1] Jennifer Croft’s debut novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey, begins with a warning from the translator—not from Croft herself, who is one of the most well-regarded translators in English today. Another translator, one Croft wrote into being, speaks: cautioning readers from proceeding. “Should you choose to keep reading,” notes this translator before the novel … Read more
[ad_1] Mark Larson’s new book, Working in the 21st Century, pays the most sincere form of tribute to Studs Terkel’s remarkable oral history Working, published fifty years ago. It not only emphasizes the impact of the earlier text but continues its efforts to provide a space for those “who are not often handed a microphone … Read more
[ad_1] As the 2024 election looms on the horizon, many of us are thinking about the issues that matter most to each of us. So much is wrong with our day-to-day—from the still-raging pandemic to the violence raging in Palestine—but it can be hard to get past the surface-level news rushing at us from all … Read more
[ad_1] The groundhog didn’t see its shadow this year, and our team can confirm that it certainly feels like spring is nearly here. I can’t lie and say I’m not looking forward to a March where I can grab a light jacket and a book and head outside for some outdoor reading. But whether or … Read more
[ad_1] This American Ex-Wife is a book about the end of a marriage, and the end of the institution of marriage. Lyz Lenz mixes memoir and reporting to lay bare the inequities entrenched within heterosexual marriages and the inequities that marriage helps to entrench—70% of divorces are initiated by women, many of them caused not … Read more