Blogs in November 2024

Glassman 10th November 2024

Mark Glassman is twenty-five in 1979. Self-taught after dropping out of college, he devises a course of study that encompasses such varied works as “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” “The Universal Baseball Association,” and “Portnoy’s Complaint.” But the amount...

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My Other Heart 20th October 2024

May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the...

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Tell Me What I Am 13th August 2023

Two women, wrenched apart by a terrible crime, must find a way back to each other When Deena Garvey disappears in 2004, she leaves behind a daughter and a sister. Deena’s daughter grows up in the country. She learns...

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The House of Eve 8th February 2023

REESE’S FEBRUARY 2023 BOOK CLUB PICK From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how...

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We Are Not Like Them 20th October 2021

Not every story is black and white. Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is black and Jen is white. And...

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