India Palmer is a novelist. She’s not been a very successful novelist, with most of her books getting some critical acclaim but slow sales. It’s who she is. She’s married to a sculptor, Theodor, and so they very much live the life of the “struggling artists.” Sometimes things are good, and sometimes not so much…
Category Archives: Literary
This Burns My Heart
Soo-ja Choi is in many ways a typical young Korean woman of her time. Her father is rich and generous so she is spared much hard work, but she is raised to not seek her own happiness, but the happiness of first her parents, and later her inlaws, husband and children. But Soo-ja is beautiful…
The Art of Forgetting
Julia and Marisa have been best friends since high school. They’ve planned their lives together, and they’re living the dream—moving from their small mid-western town to New York, Marisa working as a fashion editor while Julia works in the world of dance. Since they first knew each other, Julia’s been the one in charge, making…
Q: A Novel, a 5 Star Read
The quote on the cover of Evan Mandery’s new novel drew me in: “You must not marry Q.” The paths of this intricate and absorbing story begin at this juncture, and for the protagonist in Q: A Novel, everything hinges on whether or not he follows this heartfelt advice. I’m going to state that in…
The Lantern
The Lantern is the story of Eve, who is working as a translator in Geneva. She meets Dom, an older man who’s a musician, in a cafe. They fall into a whirlwind romance and when Dom asks Eve to come live with him in a hamlet called Le Genévriers in Provence, she can’t turn him…
The Good Muslim
When I read accounts of war, I do think about its devastating effect on people; lives lost and grieving families forever changed. But what I loved about The Good Muslim: A Novel was that it looked at how the experience of war changes forever even those who emerge relatively unscathed. The book opens with Maya…
A Good Hard Look
A Good Hard Look is a novel by Ann Napolitano set in Milledgeville, Georgia in the ’60′s. The small town and its people definitely loom large in the novel, but it’s the cast of central characters who are somewhat stereotypical, yet presented in such a compelling way that make this novel sing: A writer has…
Partitions
I’m sitting at a barbecue with a group of people, and I discover that one grew up in Pakistan. “I’m reading a book right now about the partition of India and Pakistan, and the violence of that time,” I mention. “Whose side is it written from?” he asks me. “The author is really presenting both…
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