This is one of the most
beautifully written stories I've read in a long time. It is quite dark, but the
author uses hope as a foil to the dark quality of the story.
It isn't always a
perfect balance, but then, neither is real life. It's an odd story, a clever
story, and a coming-of-age like none I've read before, with a female child
protagonist who is both taken advantage of and idolized at the same time.
Some
readers might wince at the liberties the author takes, but I applaud writers
who have no fear and show a sense of freedom in their writing: a unique
bildungsroman and a well-deserved Goodreads Choice Award winner.
A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing…
Every
once in a while, you dig into your TBR pile for a popular title, and into your
hand comes a masterpiece. In Cold Blood is one of the most spine-tingling
stories you will ever read.
From meeting the family who is murdered in cold
blood prior to their tragic deaths to intimately knowing the sick minds of the
killers who commit the crime, In Cold Blood is a frightening true story told by
a master storyteller.
One of the most spectacularly written true crime books
you will find. But be warned: It can get quite graphic in parts, and knowing it
is a true story makes it all the more terrifying.
It's not a book to read while
you're home alone at night, especially if you live on the outskirts of
town.
The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly…
I am new to this author, but I
look forward to reading her future books. Embers on the Wind is a story where
time intersects, and generational families intertwine. It is part Black magical
realism and part historical fiction.
This tale, which expertly portrays both
the Black and the White experience with a delicate sense of balance, reminds us
that the atrocities of slavery are still a part of the American fabric.
Even though years separate now from then, the fabric of time has held onto
those memories, whether in actual ghostly form or the collective
consciousness. Rosenberg is a brilliant literary fiction writer, and Embers on
the Wind will last with me for years to come.
The past and the present converge in this enthralling, serpentine tale of women connected by motherhood, slavery's legacy, and histories that span centuries.
In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It's where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreams of freedom unfulfilled.
Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free. Among them are Dominique, a single mother following her grand-mere's stories…
When World War II drags Maggie Lerner’s husband off to Europe, Maggie joins the workforce as one of America’s Rosies. Though she savors her freedom, she is haunted by a dream that something terrible will happen to her husband. After the war, Sam returns home unscathed, and Maggie, who once again takes her place as a doctor’s wife, believes the dream will disappear. Instead, it evolves into an all-consuming world where Maggie is admired for her strength; where she can have whatever she wishes.
But beneath the dream’s flawless surface, a monster lies in wait.
In an era of post-war feminism and the latest in psychoanalysis, Maggie will need to confront this evil—whether real or imagined—before it destroys both her worlds.
