Blogs in May 2020

Inside Out & Back Again 17th May 2020

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her...

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The Fires 17th May 2020

Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In “The Fires,” Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan...

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The Killing of Butterfly Joe 17th May 2020

‘I killed Joe once, in a manner of speaking. But not twice. Not in the way you mean.’ Llew Jones wanted to see the States and write about the experience. Then he met Joe Bosco, a butterfly salesman as...

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House of Fire 15th May 2020

Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who struggled with opioid addiction, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is...

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Rodham 13th May 2020

‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale...

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