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My College Sociology Notes. Circa 1997: Definition of Identity. How others see you.How you want others to see you.How you see yourself. This novel took me back to that classroom in college. My professor was trying to teach us the “academic language” for what we were supposedly doing in those four years of schooling. Even... Continue Reading →
Adrienne Celt's Invitation to a Bonfire tells the story of Zoya Andropova's travels from the Soviet Union as a young girl to an all-girls private school on the East Coast of the United States during the 1920s. She struggles through the last years of her schooling trying to learn English and make friends. The novel... Continue Reading →
Set in Hong King and Communist China in 1957, Kirstin Chen's new novel follows the once-weathly Ong family's quest to flee the Mao state and reunite with their estranged father. Grandmother, daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter all have reasons for wanting to remain on or leave their little island of Drum Wave Islet. In an attempt... Continue Reading →
In a most rare occurrence in my ebook reading days, I did not check once how far I had read in this book. I just kept reading about Big Angel's family, his proudest moments, and his worst regrets. Luis Alberto Urrea's new novel The House of Broken Angels tells the history of a Mexican-American family... Continue Reading →
Sal is the story of two sisters who run away from a painful and abusive home. The older sister Sal has meticulously prepared for the adventure by learning about survival off the internet and in books. This is where the text really takes off. The character of Sal is a well-written and believable portrait of... Continue Reading →
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