Blogs in April 2020

The Lightness 13th April 2020

‘Funny, whip-smart and transcendently wise about friendship, family, lust and love’ Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather ‘The Lightness could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists...

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Pizza Girl 13th April 2020

A riotously funny yet difficult story of two women in opposite life stages but similar mental states, Pizza Girlfollows an 18-year-old pregnant protagonist floundering as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles. She encounters Jenny, a middle-aged stay-at-home...

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women 13th April 2020

An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in...

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The Vanishing Half 13th April 2020

This one is sure to be one of 2020’s best and boldest by the author of The Mothers. Identical twin sisters Stella and Desiree are born in a small Southern community in the 1960s, when they decide to run away from...

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Book of Rosy, The: A Mothers Story of Separation at the Border 13th April 2020

This book promises to be everything Jeanine Cummins’ controversial novel American Dirt wasn’t — and, this time, it’s all true. When Rosy Cruz decides to flee her violence-ridden home in Guatemala for the United States, she takes two of...

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