Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai β 352 pages ARC from Algonquin Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1969, sisters Trang and Quα»³nh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become βbar girlsβ in SΓ i GΓ²n,...
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister ARC from St. Martinβs Press and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and...
Go As A River by Shelley ReadΒ ARC from Spiegel and Grau and Netgalley for an honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her familyβs peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Coloradoβthe sole surviving female...
Sam by Allegra Goodman β Audio ARC from PRH audio and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: There is a girl, and her name is Sam. She adores her father, though he isnβt around much. Her mother, Courtney, struggles to make ends meet, and never fails to remind her...
The Apprentice of Buchenwald by Oren Schneider β 195 pages ARC from Amsterdam Publishing for an honest review Β Book Blurb: Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life...
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams β 402 pages Book Blurb: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams: Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the “Scriptorium,” a garden shed in...