‘Schrödinger’s Dog’ Following the death of his wife almost 20 years ago, Yanis Marès was left to raise his son, Pierre, now a college student and aspiring writer. A cab driver, Yanis has been able to arrange his schedule to allow him to have a close relationship with Pierre; the
Read More →‘The Paris Hours’ by Alex George “The Paris Hours” tells the stories of four characters on a single day in 1927 and culminates when all cross paths at the end of the day. We meet a puppeteer, an artist, a journalist and a housekeeper, each with a backstory, a personal
Read More →‘The Hidden Girl and Other Stories’ In difficult times, I have this odd tendency to reach for sad things. Music, movies, books and art that has a poignant, resonate depth of truth that burns — just a little. There is so much beauty in the blues that entire genres exist
Read More →‘A Good Neighborhood’ Oak Knoll, a racially diverse suburban North Carolina neighborhood of modest ranch houses and mature trees, is upended when Brad Whitman, who is white, builds a mansion for his family on the lot behind the home of Valerie Alston-Holt, a black professor of forestry and ecology, and
Read More →‘18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics’ For fans of crime scene investigation television shows and those desiring to read inspirational stories of women’s contributions to our world, this is a must read. Frances Glessner Lee was born in 1878 into
Read More →‘A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon’ Ten-year-old Pearl Moran, born in the Lancaster Avenue branch of the NYC public library, where her mom is the circulation librarian, and raised there by her mother and the other staff, begins the story with a piercing shriek as she notices the
Read More →‘American Dirt’ “American Dirt” tells the story of Lydia and her son, Luca. They are migrants heading toward the United States, fleeing a vengeful cartel. Jeanine Cummins shares their gruesome journey in picturesque detail. The reader is transported to the top of La Bastia beside Lydia, Luca and the band
Read More →‘The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius’ The son of German immigrants, George Remus became a pharmacist at a young age and soon became a lawyer. He was a theatrical lawyer, at times mixing his knowledge of pharmacy and the law to the benefit
Read More →‘Gideon the Ninth’ Serious fiction is important and valuable to the societal landscape, and it is rightly a focus of much scholarly work. However, sometimes you just need a crazy adventure story with necromancers, lesbian swordswomen and a premise so weird and wonderful that you can’t look away. “Gideon the
Read More →‘Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee’ After assisting Truman Capote with his research for “In Cold Blood,” Harper Lee endeavored to follow her bestselling “To Kill a Mockingbird” with her own book of true crime, spending a year in the late 1970s in her native Alabama reporting on a
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