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The Immortal King Rao
The Immortal King Rao : A Novel
by Vauhini Vara
Reviewed: Mar 13, 2022
 
Published: May 3, 2022
 
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.
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(3.6/5)
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Housebreaking
Housebreaking
by Colleen Hubbard
Reviewed: Sep 21, 2021
 
Published: Apr 19, 2022
 
Following a long-standing family feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her family home—alone and by hand—and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter in this mesmerizing debut.
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(4.4/5)
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Take My Hand
Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Reviewed: Aug 16, 2021
 
Published: Apr 12, 2022
 
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.
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(4.8/5)
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Activities of Daily Living
Activities of Daily Living : A Novel
by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Reviewed: Dec 20, 2021
 
Published: Apr 12, 2022
 
A lucid and moving debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time.
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(3.8/5)
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Two Storm Wood
Two Storm Wood : A Novel
by Philip Gray
Reviewed: Nov 15, 2021
 
Published: Mar 29, 2022
 
In this thriller set on the battlefields of the Somme after the end of World War I, a woman investigates the disappearance of her fiancé.
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(4.5/5)
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Peach Blossom Spring
Peach Blossom Spring : A Novel
by Melissa Fu
Reviewed: Feb 1, 2022
 
Published: Mar 15, 2022
 
A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author ...
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(4.7/5)
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Fencing with the King
Fencing with the King : A Novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Reviewed: Nov 15, 2021
 
Published: Mar 15, 2022
 
A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.
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(4.3/5)
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On a Night of a Thousand Stars
On a Night of a Thousand Stars
by Andrea Yaryura Clark
Reviewed: Jan 25, 2022
 
Published: Mar 1, 2022
 
In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.
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(4.2/5)
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