True… a novel about deceptivness. Today for lunch read an excerpt from the newly translated novel True by Riikka Pulkkinen. From a new international literary voice comes a novel about the deceptiveness of memory, and the mercy and love that can come from a lie. Pulkkinen is a young literary sensation in Finland and […]
A Partial History of Lost Causes- I have been saying this often- but I will say it again- lately I am completely obsessed with audio books. I don’t know if it is the way a narrator can bring a story to life, or the way each word is spoken with such importance, or simply that it […]
I just finished reading the ARE of Lisa See’s wonderful new novel Shanghai Girls. I was a fan of both Snowflower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, but I thought her new book blew them away. It is more contemporary, set in 1930s Los Angeles and focuses on the relationship between two sisters […]
